Arizona Astronomy

Clear Skies

Within the US, only Hawaii has better astronomical seeing than Arizona. Though Percival Lowell’s observatory in Flagstaff was first in the state, modern telescopes cluster in the southern part of the state, where isolated high mountains offer the best seeing.

The winding road up to Mt Hopkins
The Mt Hopkins multi-mirror telescope is housed in a rotating building
Kitt Peak, west of Tucson
The controls of a major instrument