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We Have Arrived!

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Kitt Peak is a Sacred Mountain

Kitt Peak is located on the TohonoO'odham Reservation, stretching 90miles across the Sonoran Desertsouthwest of Tucson. This has been the

ancestral homeland of the TohonoO'odham Nation for over 2,000 years.

To the O'odham Nation, Kitt Peak is asacred mountain although not as sacredas Baboquivari Peak , the large granitedome found to the south. The O'odhamregard Baboquivari to be the navel of

the world, center of the universe.

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McMath-Pierce: The Largest Solar Telescope in the

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The light travels from the heliostat at the top 500 feetdown into the ground, is reflected back up by a 1.6 mconcave mirror and is then reflected down into the

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Light comes into thetelescope via theheliostat shown atthe left.

The light isreflected from thebottom of thelight tunnel by a1.6 m concavemirror shown at

the right.

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View Down the Solar Tube

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Rachel opening upthe telescope 5March 2008

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Which button do I pushnow?

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And the Rotational Velocity of the Sun is:

486.7688159

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Degrees Rotation Ratem/s The Sun has

differential rotation,that is it rotates atdifferent velocities at

different latitudes.Hence the changefrom 487 m/s at 10degrees to 1460 m/s

at 90 degrees.

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The Kitt Peak Visitor Center sells crafts of the Tohono Oodham

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There are 25opticaltelescopes on

Kitt Peak and 2

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The 4 m

telescope is thelargesttelescope on themountain.

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Spacewatch: 1.8 m and .9 m Telescopes

The primary goal of Spacewatch is toexplore the variouspopulations of smallobjects in the solarsystem, and study thestatistics of asteroids and comets in order to investigatethe dynamicalevolution of the solarsystem.

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The WIYN Telescope: 3.5 m mirror The WIYN Observatory isowned and operated by

the WIYN Consortium,which consists of theUniversity of Wisconsin,Indiana University, YaleUniversity, and theNational OpticalAstronomy Observatories(NOAO).

NOAO, which operatesthe other telescopes of the Kitt Peak NationalObservatory, provides

most of the operating

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The 12-m Radio Telescope

The 12m offers usersflexibility and theopportunity to respondquickly to new scientificdevelopments. TheObservatory maintains

low-noise receivingsystems covering allatmospheric windows form68 GHz to 180 GHz.Operational reliability

throughout is emphasized.Flexible spectral line andcontinuum backends allowthe observer to match theinstrument to the scientificgoals.

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Rachel, Zhanna, and Eric (operator) atop

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Goodbye to the beautiful sunsets!

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And the 42 mph cold, harsh wind!

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