This guide provides a comprehensive tour of the famous Kitt Peak telescopes and an introduction to the important research accomplished with them. For more than 45 years, astronomers have used the ...

Eventually it may become a rocky ghost, its glory days gone for good. Kitt Peak's solar telescope is bored right into the mountain, with mirrors on top that can be oriented to follow the sun's ...

Peering through a telescope with a 16-inch-diameter mirror—small by Kitt Peak’s standards—I spied a cluster of stars so brilliant that it looked like an enormous LED light had taken root in ...

We describe the SpArc science gateway for spectral data obtained using the Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) in operation at the Mayall 4-m telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory ...

This is a nine-hour exposure of the McMath-Pierce Solar Facility on Kitt Peak. The normally white building appears red due to high altitude haze following the 1991 eruptions of Mount Pinatubo ...

The Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson has one of the largest arrays of optical and radio telescopes in the world. It operates telescopes for research and public viewing, hosts exhibits on ...

Right, well this was the first solar telescope ... But this is one of the first telescopes built on Kitt Peak. Well, we actually, on this particular telescope, it's really cool, 'cause we get ...

Kitt Peak National Observatory ... The icy visitor from the outer solar system, which orbits the sun once in every 80,000 years, is now visible in the western sky after sunset — and it ...