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Arizona BMW Z-Series Club DCT Drive

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A few photos from the April 2018 drive to the Discovery Channel Telescope in the Coconino National Forest near Happy Jack, AZ. This facility is part of the Lowell Observatory. Our private tour was initiated by club members Bob & Pam Walker. It was a great visit! Our guides were Bill DeGroff, Telescope Facilities Manager; Todd Gonzales, Outreach Master Teacher; and Sherry Kosaveach.

The facility utilizes the following instruments:

  • LMI (Large Monolithic Imager),
  • DSSI (Differential Speckle Survey),
  • NIHTS (Near-Infrared High-Throughput Spectrograph,
  • POETS (Portable Occultation, Eclipse, and Transit System, and
  • DeVeny Spectrograph.

The Primary Mirror is 4.3-meters in diameter, 4-in thick, and is made of ultra-low expansion glass, and weighs 6,920-lbs. The Secondary Mirror is 1.4-meters in diameter, 5.5-in thick, and is made of fused quartz, weighing in at 495-lbs.

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Notes

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If the photo is "geo-tagged" the location may be viewed on Google Maps. Follow the guidelines above to locate the "Map" link (a small folded map). Clicking the link will open up a new window showing where the photograph was taken. You may need to zoom the map to get additional detail. Simply close the new window to return to browsing the gallery.