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1911. Currently under restoration to be re-installed in Northwest Arkansas [ 9 ] Lowell Observatory. Arizona, USA. 61 cm (24") 9.75 m (32 ft) 1894. Alvan Clark & Sons telescope. Further information: List of largest optical refracting telescopes.
Airborne observatory. Radio observatory. Microwave observatory. Ground-based observatory. Solar observatory. Neutrino detector. Cosmic-ray observatory. Educational observatory. This is a partial list of astronomical observatories ordered by name, along with initial dates of operation (where an accurate date is available) and location.
Kitt Peak is the National Observatory of the United States, in contrast to the various benefactor and privately funded telescopes. The largest optical telescope at Kitt Peak is the 4 meter aperture Mayall reflector, and the bureaucracy also supports a variety of other instruments throughout the United States and internationally, but not telescopes such as Hubble, supported by NASA (which a ...
This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. Astronomical observatories in the United States by state (48 C) Astronomical observatories in Washington, D.C. (1 C, 4 P)
The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) is a United States astronomical observatory located on Kitt Peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona - Sonoran Desert on the Tohono Oʼodham Nation, 88 kilometers (55 mi) west-southwest of Tucson, Arizona. With more than twenty optical and two radio telescopes, it is one of the largest gatherings of ...
Lick Observatory is the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory. [1] The observatory, in a Classical Revival style structure, was constructed between 1876 and 1887, from a bequest from James Lick of $700,000, equivalent to $23,737,778 in 2023. [2][3] Lick, originally a carpenter and piano maker, had arrived from Peru in San ...
The United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS), is an astronomical observatory near Flagstaff, Arizona, US. It is the national dark-sky observing facility under the United States Naval Observatory (USNO). [1] NOFS and USNO combine as the Celestial Reference Frame [2] manager for the U.S. Secretary of Defense. [3] [4]
The Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) are a group of independent astronomical research facilities and large telescope observatories that are located at the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, United States. The facilities are located in a 525-acre (212 ha) special land use zone known as the "Astronomy Precinct", which is located ...