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The Lowell Observatory
Lowell Observatory is located in Flagstaff, Arizona. It was
established in 1894 by Dr. Percival Lowell. Dr. Percival borrowed several
telescopes and managed to collect a small staff and began making
observations of the sky. In 1896, Dr. Percival got a 24-inch Alvan Clark
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.... 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 ni ....
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