Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Lowell Observatory

Index Lowell Observatory

Lowell Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. [1]

65 relations: Alvan Clark, Alvan Clark & Sons, Anderson Mesa Station, Astrograph, Astronomer, Astronomical interferometer, Astronomy, Atmosphere, Boller and Chivens, Cassegrain reflector, Catadioptric system, Clyde Tombaugh, Coconino National Forest, Discovery Channel Telescope, Discovery, Inc., Dry ice, Exoplanet, Flagstaff, Arizona, Galaxy, Ganymede (moon), Guy Lowell, Halley's Comet, Happy Jack, Arizona, Harold Johnson (astronomer), HD 209458 b, Hydra (moon), Jupiter, Kuiper belt, List of the largest optical telescopes in the contiguous United States, Lowell family, Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search, Michael C. J. Putnam, National Historic Landmark, National Park Service, Navy Precision Optical Interferometer, Near-Earth object, Neptune, Neptune trojan, Nix (moon), Observatory, Outer space, Parabolic reflector, Percival Lowell, Pluto, Primary mirror, Recessional velocity, Reflecting telescope, Refracting telescope, Rings of Uranus, Ritchey–Chrétien telescope, ..., Roger Putnam, Solar irradiance, Star, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, Sun, Telescope, Tucson, Arizona, United States, United States Naval Observatory, United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station, United States Naval Research Laboratory, University of Arizona, Uranus, Vesto Slipher, William Lowell Putnam III. Expand index (15 more) »

Alvan Clark

Alvan Clark (March 8, 1804 – August 19, 1887), born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the descendant of a Cape Cod whaling family of English ancestry, was an American astronomer and telescope maker.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Alvan Clark · See more »

Alvan Clark & Sons

Alvan Clark & Sons was an American maker of optics that became famous for crafting lenses for some of the largest refracting telescopes of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Alvan Clark & Sons · See more »

Anderson Mesa Station

Anderson Mesa Station is an astronomical observatory established in 1959 as a dark-sky observing site for Lowell Observatory.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Anderson Mesa Station · See more »

Astrograph

An astrograph (astrographic camera) is a telescope designed for the sole purpose of astrophotography.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Astrograph · See more »

Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who concentrates their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Astronomer · See more »

Astronomical interferometer

An astronomical interferometer is an array of separate telescopes, mirror segments, or radio telescope antennas that work together as a single telescope to provide higher resolution images of astronomical objects such as stars, nebulas and galaxies by means of interferometry.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Astronomical interferometer · See more »

Astronomy

Astronomy (from ἀστρονομία) is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Astronomy · See more »

Atmosphere

An atmosphere is a layer or a set of layers of gases surrounding a planet or other material body, that is held in place by the gravity of that body.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Atmosphere · See more »

Boller and Chivens

Boller and Chivens was an American manufacturer of high-quality telescopes and spectrographs headquartered in South Pasadena, California.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Boller and Chivens · See more »

Cassegrain reflector

The Cassegrain reflector is a combination of a primary concave mirror and a secondary convex mirror, often used in optical telescopes and radio antennas.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Cassegrain reflector · See more »

Catadioptric system

A catadioptric optical system is one where refraction and reflection are combined in an optical system, usually via lenses (dioptrics) and curved mirrors (catoptrics).

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Catadioptric system · See more »

Clyde Tombaugh

Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Clyde Tombaugh · See more »

Coconino National Forest

The Coconino National Forest is a 1.856-million acre (751,000 ha) United States National Forest located in northern Arizona in the vicinity of Flagstaff.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Coconino National Forest · See more »

Discovery Channel Telescope

The Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT) is a aperture telescope built by Lowell Observatory and The Discovery Channel.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Discovery Channel Telescope · See more »

Discovery, Inc.

Discovery, Inc. (formerly Discovery Communications) is an American mass media company based in Silver Spring, Maryland, first established in 1985.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Discovery, Inc. · See more »

Dry ice

Dry ice, sometimes referred to as "cardice" (chiefly by British chemists), is the solid form of carbon dioxide.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Dry ice · See more »

Exoplanet

An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside our solar system.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Exoplanet · See more »

Flagstaff, Arizona

Flagstaff is a city in and the county seat of Coconino County in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Flagstaff, Arizona · See more »

Galaxy

A galaxy is a gravitationally bound system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Galaxy · See more »

Ganymede (moon)

Ganymede (Jupiter III) is the largest and most massive moon of Jupiter and in the Solar System.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Ganymede (moon) · See more »

Guy Lowell

Guy Lowell (August 6, 1870 – February 4, 1927), was an American architect and landscape architect.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Guy Lowell · See more »

Halley's Comet

Halley's Comet or Comet Halley, officially designated 1P/Halley, is a short-period comet visible from Earth every 74–79 years.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Halley's Comet · See more »

Happy Jack, Arizona

Happy Jack is an unincorporated community and campground located in the Mogollon Rim Region of Coconino County, Arizona, United States.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Happy Jack, Arizona · See more »

Harold Johnson (astronomer)

Harold Lester Johnson (April 17, 1921 – April 2, 1980) was an American astronomer.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Harold Johnson (astronomer) · See more »

HD 209458 b

HD 209458 b, also given the nickname Osiris,http://exoplanets.co/exoplanets-tutorial/extrasolar-planet-hd-209458-b.html is an exoplanet that orbits the solar analog HD 209458 in the constellation Pegasus, some 159 light-years from the Solar System.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and HD 209458 b · See more »

Hydra (moon)

Hydra is the outermost known moon of Pluto.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Hydra (moon) · See more »

Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Jupiter · See more »

Kuiper belt

The Kuiper belt, occasionally called the Edgeworth–Kuiper belt, is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Kuiper belt · See more »

List of the largest optical telescopes in the contiguous United States

List of the largest optical telescopes in the contiguous United States ranks optical telescopes located in the contiguous United States by aperture.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and List of the largest optical telescopes in the contiguous United States · See more »

Lowell family

The Lowell family is one of the Boston Brahmin families of New England, known for both intellectual and commercial achievements.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Lowell family · See more »

Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search

Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) was a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search · See more »

Michael C. J. Putnam

Michael Courtney Jenkins Putnam (born September 20, 1933) is an American classicist specializing in Latin literature, but has also studied literature written in many other languages.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Michael C. J. Putnam · See more »

National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and National Historic Landmark · See more »

National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and National Park Service · See more »

Navy Precision Optical Interferometer

The Navy Precision Optical Interferometer (NPOI) is an American astronomical interferometer, with the world's largest baselines, operated by the Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS) in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and Lowell Observatory.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Navy Precision Optical Interferometer · See more »

Near-Earth object

A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body whose orbit can bring it into proximity with Earth.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Near-Earth object · See more »

Neptune

Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Neptune · See more »

Neptune trojan

Neptune trojans are bodies that orbit the Sun near one of the stable Lagrangian points of Neptune, similar to the trojans of other planets.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Neptune trojan · See more »

Nix (moon)

Nix is a natural satellite of Pluto.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Nix (moon) · See more »

Observatory

An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial or celestial events.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Observatory · See more »

Outer space

Outer space, or just space, is the expanse that exists beyond the Earth and between celestial bodies.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Outer space · See more »

Parabolic reflector

A parabolic (or paraboloid or paraboloidal) reflector (or dish or mirror) is a reflective surface used to collect or project energy such as light, sound, or radio waves.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Parabolic reflector · See more »

Percival Lowell

Percival Lawrence Lowell (March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Percival Lowell · See more »

Pluto

Pluto (minor planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Pluto · See more »

Primary mirror

A primary mirror (or primary) is the principal light-gathering surface (the objective) of a reflecting telescope.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Primary mirror · See more »

Recessional velocity

Recessional velocity is the rate at which an astronomical object is moving away, typically from Earth.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Recessional velocity · See more »

Reflecting telescope

A reflecting telescope (also called a reflector) is a telescope that uses a single or a combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Reflecting telescope · See more »

Refracting telescope

A refracting telescope (also called a refractor) is a type of optical telescope that uses a lens as its objective to form an image (also referred to a dioptric telescope).

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Refracting telescope · See more »

Rings of Uranus

The rings of Uranus are a system of rings around the planet Uranus, intermediate in complexity between the more extensive set around Saturn and the simpler systems around Jupiter and Neptune.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Rings of Uranus · See more »

Ritchey–Chrétien telescope

A Ritchey–Chrétien telescope (RCT or simply RC) is a specialized variant of the Cassegrain telescope that has a hyperbolic primary mirror and a hyperbolic secondary mirror designed to eliminate off-axis optical errors (coma).

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Ritchey–Chrétien telescope · See more »

Roger Putnam

Roger Lowell Putnam (December 19, 1893 – November 24, 1972) was an American politician and businessman.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Roger Putnam · See more »

Solar irradiance

Solar irradiance is the power per unit area received from the Sun in the form of electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range of the measuring instrument.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Solar irradiance · See more »

Star

A star is type of astronomical object consisting of a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its own gravity.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Star · See more »

Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is an 80/20 joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to construct and maintain an airborne observatory.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy · See more »

Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Sun · See more »

Telescope

A telescope is an optical instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation (such as visible light).

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Telescope · See more »

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and home to the University of Arizona.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Tucson, Arizona · See more »

United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and United States · See more »

United States Naval Observatory

The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is one of the oldest scientific agencies in the United States, with a primary mission to produce Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) for the United States Navy and the United States Department of Defense.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and United States Naval Observatory · See more »

United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station

The United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS), is an astronomical observatory near Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station · See more »

United States Naval Research Laboratory

The United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and United States Naval Research Laboratory · See more »

University of Arizona

The University of Arizona (also referred to as U of A, UA, or Arizona) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and University of Arizona · See more »

Uranus

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Uranus · See more »

Vesto Slipher

Vesto Melvin Slipher (November 11, 1875 – November 8, 1969) was an American astronomer who performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and Vesto Slipher · See more »

William Lowell Putnam III

William Lowell Putnam III (October 25, 1924 – December 20, 2014) was an alpinist, author and retired broadcasting executive.

New!!: Lowell Observatory and William Lowell Putnam III · See more »

Redirects here:

Flagstaff (LO), Flagstaff Observatory, Lowell Observatory Bulletin.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Observatory

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »