The Lowell Observatory

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There are a total of nine telescopes, eight which are at the
observatory, of these many of them are historic, such as the 24" Clark
Refractor that is 102 years old. The Pluto telescope dome and John Vickers
McAllister telescope dome, which is 16" long, are also telescopes you would
find at Lowell Observatory. The most modern telescope they have there is
the Anderson Mesa Telescope. Their ninth telescope is located in Western
Australia. Many of these nine telescopes are equipped with state of the art
electronic cameras, auxiliary instrumentation and spectrographs. Recently
they have gotten the privilege to have the access to the Navy Optical
Interferometer. Lowell does a lot with NASA too; the astronomers often use
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to help with their research.
A lot of research has been done at this observatory, including the
discovery of the evidence of expanding of the universe in 1912-1917 and the
successful search of the ninth planet, Pluto, in 1930. Other ...

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