Kitt Peak National Observatory

observatory · US · 2096 m

Observatorio Nacional de Kitt Peak

Kitt Peak National Observatory — observatory — KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava) · CC BY 4.0

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2096 m

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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 astronomical instruments in the Earth's northern hemisphere.

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