Organization | Lowell Observatory, United States Naval Observatory | ||||||||
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Code | 688 | ||||||||
Location | Coconino County, near Flagstaff, Arizona | ||||||||
Coordinates | 35°05′49″N 111°32′09″W / 35.09694°N 111.53583°W | ||||||||
Altitude | 2,163 meters (7,096 ft) | ||||||||
Established | 1959 | ||||||||
Website | Lowell Observatory | ||||||||
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Perkins Telescope | 1.8 m Cassegrain telescope |
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John S. Hall Telescope | 1.1 m Ritchey-Chretien telescope |
NURO Telescope | 0.8 m reflecting telescope |
Navy Precision Optical Interferometer | Optical Interferometer |
Anderson Mesa Station is an astronomical observatory established in 1959 as a dark-sky observing site for Lowell Observatory. It is located at Anderson Mesa in Coconino County, Arizona (USA), about 12 miles southeast of Lowell's main campus on Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Arizona.