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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. LOWELL_220715_010.JPG: Asset #40 Positive View of Personal Future Artist: Jana Aukon
2. LOWELL_220715_020.JPG: The Mars Kaleidisphere An interactive sculpture created by local artists Mike Frankel, John Rogers, and Tom Williams, utilizing recycled materials and Hubble Telescope images to commemorate the second decade of the Artists' Coalition of Flagstaff's City of Flagstaff Recycled Art Exhibition. Dedicated on October 13, 2013
3. LOWELL_220715_023.JPG: Steele Visitor Center
4. LOWELL_220715_026.JPG: Steele Visitor Center Dedicated May 28, 1994
5. LOWELL_220715_030.JPG: The Verkamp Meteorite A weel-traveled space rock
6. LOWELL_220715_034.JPG: Meteorite
7. LOWELL_220715_045.JPG: The 42-inch Lampland Telescope
8. LOWELL_220715_064.JPG: The Sundial
9. LOWELL_220715_069.JPG: Acorn Woodpecker
10. LOWELL_220715_071.JPG: Fire's Role
11. LOWELL_220715_073.JPG: Big Brown Bat
12. LOWELL_220715_075.JPG: Abert Squirrel
13. LOWELL_220715_080.JPG: Rotunda Museum [ which was not open when I was there. They were saying it was only open at nights when the telescopes were out for viewing. ]
14. LOWELL_220715_087.JPG: The Pickard Grove
15. LOWELL_220715_099.JPG: U.S. Astronomer Percival Lowell, Specialist of Mars, And Animiza
16. LOWELL_220715_100.JPG: Low-Pressure Sodium Light
17. LOWELL_220715_105.JPG: Oak Trees
18. LOWELL_220715_112.JPG: The San Francisco Peaks
19. LOWELL_220715_117.JPG: Feeding Birds
20. LOWELL_220715_154.JPG: The Pluto Walk
21. LOWELL_220715_157.JPG: The Sun
22. LOWELL_220715_162.JPG: Venus
23. LOWELL_220715_167.JPG: Earth
24. LOWELL_220715_172.JPG: Mars
25. LOWELL_220715_174.JPG: Asteroids in the Main Belt
26. LOWELL_220715_178.JPG: Jupiter
27. LOWELL_220715_199.JPG: This "Pluto Walk" was given by the heirs of Roger Lowell Putnam, trustee of this observatory from 1927 to 1967. Roger Putnam chose the name Pluto.
28. LOWELL_220715_209.JPG: The dots indicate maximum and minimum orbital distances
29. LOWELL_220715_211.JPG: Percival Lowell Percival Lowell From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Percival Lowell (March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, and furthered theories of a ninth planet within the Solar System. He founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death.
30. LOWELL_220715_217.JPG: Saturn
31. LOWELL_220715_221.JPG: Earl Carl Slipher Earl C. Slipher From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Earl Carl Slipher (March 25, 1883 – August 7, 1964) was an American astronomer. He was the brother of astronomer Vesto Slipher. Slipher was born in Mulberry, Indiana. He first joined Lowell Observatory in 1908 and became a noted planetary astronomer, concentrating on Mars. He published Photographic History of Mars (1905–1961). In 1957, he appeared in the "Mars and Beyond" episode of Disneyland discussing the possibility of life on Mars. He also served as mayor of Flagstaff, Arizona from 1918 to 1920, and later as a member of the Arizona state legislature until 1933. The crater Slipher on the Moon is named after Earl and Vesto Slipher, as is asteroid 1766 Slipher, discovered September 7, 1962, by the Indiana Asteroid Program.
32. LOWELL_220715_230.JPG: Henry Lee Giclas Henry L. Giclas From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Lee Giclas (December 9, 1910 – April 2, 2007) was an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets. He worked at Lowell Observatory using the blink comparator, and hired Robert Burnham Jr. to work there. He also worked on a notable proper motion survey with several relatively nearby stars bearing his name such as Giclas 99-49. Henry Giclas is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 17 numbered minor planets between 1943 and 1978, including 2201 Oljato – tentatively identified as the parent body of the "Chi Orionids" meteor shower – and 2061 Anza, two near-Earth asteroids of the Apollo and Amor group, respectively. He also discovered 84P/Giclas in 1978, a periodic comet of the Jupiter family. Henry Giclas died of a stroke at the age of 96 in Flagstaff, Arizona. The crater Giclas on Pluto, as well as the asteroid 1741 Giclas, discovered by the Indiana Asteroid Program in 1960, are named for him.
33. LOWELL_220715_236.JPG: Uranus
34. LOWELL_220715_239.JPG: Robert Burnham Jr. Robert Burnham Jr. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Burnham Jr. (June 16, 1931 – March 20, 1993) was an American astronomer, best known for writing the classic three-volume Burnham's Celestial Handbook. He is the discoverer of numerous asteroids including the Mars crossing asteroid 3397 Leyla, as well as six comets. Burnham's late years were tragic; he died destitute and alone. However, he is remembered by a generation of deep sky observers for his unique contribution to astronomy, the Celestial Handbook. The main-belt asteroid 3467 Bernheim was named in his honor.
35. LOWELL_220715_242.JPG: This hilltop grove, north of "Site 11", with its unsurpassed view of the sunrise, has been reserved for the memory of those not memorialized elsewhere on Mars Hill who have also loved LOWELL OBSERVATORY, and, having given it their best -- have gone on.
36. LOWELL_220715_246.JPG: George Hall Hamilton (1884-1935) Astronomer
37. LOWELL_220715_248.JPG: William Lowell Putnam II (1862-1924) Counsel / Administrator
38. LOWELL_220715_250.JPG: James Ludlow Elliot (1943-2011) Adjunct Astronomer
39. LOWELL_220715_252.JPG: Helen Jean Scheele (1917-1994) Bookkeeper
40. LOWELL_220715_258.JPG: Contained in this cairn are the ashes of Kathryn Elizabeth Flynn Putnam, hostess and loving wife, and those of her spouse, William Lowell Powell, III, trustee from 1987 to 2013, whose collective gifts and decisions helped bring Lowell Observatory, once again, into the forefront of astronomical science, as was done a century earlier by his great-uncle, Percival Lowell.
41. LOWELL_220715_261.JPG: Rey Albert Reinoso (1932-2012) Volunteer / Lumberman
42. LOWELL_220715_263.JPG: Guy Lowell (1870-1927) First Trustee
43. LOWELL_220715_266.JPG: William Lowell Putnam (1924-2014) Trustee
44. LOWELL_220715_269.JPG: Stuart Edgar Jones (1930-1990) Photographer
45. LOWELL_220715_273.JPG: Clyde William Tombaugh Clyde Tombaugh From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer. He discovered Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt. At the time of discovery, Pluto was considered a planet, but was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Tombaugh also discovered many asteroids, and called for the serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects.
46. LOWELL_220715_282.JPG: The buttons are marked Neptune and Pluto, showing that Pluto's orbit actually comes closer to the sun than Neptune does at various times.
47. LOWELL_220715_289.JPG: Neptune
48. LOWELL_220715_294.JPG: Pluto
49. LOWELL_220715_308.JPG: The Outer Solar System
50. LOWELL_220715_318.JPG: Galaxy Walk
51. LOWELL_220715_321.JPG: Space Women Space Men
52. LOWELL_220715_326.JPG: This space funded by Earthlings Bill and Sue Ahearn From Wikipedia: William Ahearn (born 1946), astronomy benefactor after whom the asteroid 25943 Billahearn is named
53. LOWELL_220715_329.JPG: Welcome to the Giovale Open Deck Observatory!
54. LOWELL_220715_338.JPG: "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." -- John Muir, naturalist
55. LOWELL_220715_340.JPG: "The stars arise, and the night is holy." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet
56. LOWELL_220715_342.JPG: Kepler's Third Law of Planetary Motion
57. LOWELL_220715_344.JPG: "The truth will prevail in the end. Nonsense will fall on its own weight, by a sort of intellectual law of gravitation." -- Cecilia Payne-Gapsochkin, astronomer
58. LOWELL_220715_346.JPG: "There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman." -- Vera Rubin, astronomer
59. LOWELL_220715_349.JPG: "Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!" -- Dom Perignon, reportedly said when he first tasted champagne
60. LOWELL_220715_352.JPG: "We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry." -- Maria Mitchell, America's first woman astronomer
61. LOWELL_220715_356.JPG: The Drake Equation
62. LOWELL_220715_361.JPG: Lowell Observatory is grateful for the many generous friends who have contributed to the Giovale Open Deck Observatory
63. LOWELL_220715_364.JPG: Where does the Sun Rise on the summer solstice?
64. LOWELL_220715_367.JPG: "Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God." -- Maria Mitchell, America's first woman astronomer
65. LOWELL_220715_369.JPG: "The Universe if one of God's thoughts." -- Friederich Schiller, writer
66. LOWELL_220715_371.JPG: "The sight of the stars always makes me dream." -- Vincent van Gogh, painter
67. LOWELL_220715_373.JPG: "All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have." -- Albert Einstein, scientist and Novel laureate
68. LOWELL_220715_377.JPG: "With all your science can you tell me how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?" -- Henry David Thoreau, author
69. LOWELL_220715_384.JPG: "We are stardust." -- Joni Mitchell, musician
70. LOWELL_220715_386.JPG: The relationship between a star's distance and its apparent brightness.
71. LOWELL_220715_389.JPG: "He burned his house down for fire insurance And spent the proceeds on a telescope To satisfy a lifelong curiosity About our place, among the infinities." -- Robert Frost, poet
72. LOWELL_220715_391.JPG: The observation deck doors open.
73. LOWELL_220715_418.JPG: "There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them." -- Margaret Geller, astronomer
74. LOWELL_220715_419.JPG: "I am only going to be on this planet once and for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?" -- John Templeton, philanthropist
75. LOWELL_220715_420.JPG: "Ancora imparo -- Still I am learning." -- Michelangelo, artist and poet at age 87
76. LOWELL_220715_421.JPG: Giovale Open Deck Observatory
77. LOWELL_220715_428.JPG: What is a planisphere?
78. LOWELL_220715_437.JPG: Where does the sun set on the winter solstice?
79. LOWELL_220715_439.JPG: "Bright points in the sky or a blow on the head will equally cause one to see stars." -- Percival Lowell, astronomer
80. LOWELL_220715_441.JPG: "Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious." -- Carl Sagan, astronomer
81. LOWELL_220715_443.JPG: "The reward of the young scientist is the emotional thrill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something." -- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, astronomer
82. LOWELL_220715_444.JPG: "We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." -- T.S. Eliot, poet
83. LOWELL_220715_447.JPG: "The purpose of this life is the investigation of the sun, the moon, and the heavens." 00 Anaxagoras, pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
84. LOWELL_220715_449.JPG: "And what if the sky here is no different and it is my eyes that have been sharpening themselves?" -- Sylvia Plath, poet
85. LOWELL_220715_451.JPG: "We have peered into a new world and have seen that it is more mysterious and more complex than we have imagined." -- Vera Rubin, astronomer
86. LOWELL_220715_453.JPG: "It is always sunrise somewhere." -- John Muir, naturalist
87. LOWELL_220715_455.JPG: "Doubt is the origin of wisdom." -- Rene Descartes, philosopher and scientist
88. LOWELL_220715_457.JPG: "One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies." -- Ursula K. Le Guin, writer
89. LOWELL_220715_459.JPG: "In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -- Galileo Galilei, astronomer
90. LOWELL_220715_461.JPG: "And in the end we are nothing more than love and space dust." -- David Jones, writer
91. LOWELL_220715_463.JPG: "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood." -- Marie Curie, scientist and Nobel laureate
92. LOWELL_220715_466.JPG: "Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious." -- Stephen Hawking, scientist
93. LOWELL_220715_468.JPG: "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." -- Douglas Adams, author
94. LOWELL_220715_471.JPG: "Science is not only a discipline of reason, but, also one of romance and passion." -- Stephen Hawking, scientist
95. LOWELL_220715_473.JPG: Einstein's famous equation showing the equivalence of mass and energy.
96. LOWELL_220715_477.JPG: "Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." -- Marcus Aurelius, emperor and philosopher
97. LOWELL_220715_479.JPG: Curiosity on the Surface of Mars
98. LOWELL_220715_484.JPG: Mars In H.G. Well's [sic] sci-fi classic, "The War of the Worlds," invading Martians are killed by earthly germs for which they had no immunity. But we are not at war with Mars, so be sure to wash your hands before you leave.
99. LOWELL_220715_489.JPG: Black Hole
100. LOWELL_220715_491.JPG: The Edwin V. Post Endowed Chair for the Contemplation of the Universe [ This was in the bathroom stall. ]
101. LOWELL_220715_500.JPG: Hypatia Hypatia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hypatia[a] (born c. 350–370; died 415 AD) was a neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy. Although preceded by Pandrosion, another Alexandrine female mathematician, she is the first female mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded. Hypatia was renowned in her own lifetime as a great teacher and a wise counselor. She wrote a commentary on Diophantus's thirteen-volume Arithmetica, which may survive in part, having been interpolated into Diophantus's original text, and another commentary on Apollonius of Perga's treatise on conic sections, which has not survived. Many modern scholars also believe that Hypatia may have edited the surviving text of Ptolemy's Almagest, based on the title of her father Theon's commentary on Book III of the Almagest. Hypatia constructed astrolabes and hydrometers, but did not invent either of these, which were both in use long before she was born. She was tolerant towards Christians and taught many Christian students, including Synesius, the future bishop of Ptolemais. Ancient sources record that Hypatia was widely beloved by pagans and Christians alike and that she established great influence with the political elite in Alexandria. Towards the end of her life, Hypatia advised Orestes, the Roman prefect of Alexandria, who was in the midst of a political feud with Cyril, the bishop of Alexandria. Rumors spread accusing her of preventing Orestes from reconciling with Cyril and, in March 415 AD, she was murdered by a mob of Christians led by a lector named Peter. Hypatia's murder shocked the empire and transformed her into a "martyr for philosophy", leading future Neoplatonists such as Damascius to become increasingly fervent in their opposition to Christianity. During the Middle Ages, Hypatia was co-opted as a symbol of Christian virtue and scholars believe she was part of the basis for the legend of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. During the Age of Enlightenment, she became a symbol of opposition to Catholicism. In the nineteenth century, European literature, especially Charles Kingsley's 1853 novel Hypatia, romanticized her as "the last of the Hellenes". In the twentieth century, Hypatia became seen as an icon for women's rights and a precursor to the feminist movement. Since the late twentieth century, some portrayals have associated Hypatia's death with the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, despite the historical fact that the library no longer existed during Hypatia's lifetime.
102. LOWELL_220715_505.JPG: Georges-Henri Lemaitre Georges Lema�tre From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Georges Henri Joseph �douard Lema�tre (17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He was the first to theorize that the recession of nearby galaxies can be explained by an expanding universe, which was observationally confirmed soon afterwards by Edwin Hubble. He first derived "Hubble's law", now called the Hubble–Lema�tre law by the IAU, and published the first estimation of the Hubble constant in 1927, two years before Hubble's article. Lema�tre also proposed the "Big Bang theory" of the origin of the universe, calling it the "hypothesis of the primeval atom", and later calling it "the beginning of the world".
103. LOWELL_220715_508.JPG: Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
104. LOWELL_220715_516.JPG: Infinite Wonders Await Kemper & Ethel Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center Opening by 2024
105. LOWELL_220715_525.JPG: The Putnam Collection Center
106. LOWELL_220715_529.JPG: Lowell's Lunar Legacy
107. LOWELL_220715_539.JPG: Mapping the Moon
108. LOWELL_220715_541.JPG: The Lampland Diaries
109. LOWELL_220715_543.JPG: Lampland's diary entry from February 18, 1930, the day Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto. Note "Planet X?" at the top of the page.
110. LOWELL_220715_561.JPG: Infrared Observations of Comet Skjellerup-Maristany
111. LOWELL_220715_578.JPG: Lampland's Diaries
112. LOWELL_220715_587.JPG: Radiometer and Thermocouple Taking the Temperatures of the Planets at Lowell Observatory
113. LOWELL_220715_589.JPG: Lantern Slides
114. LOWELL_220715_593.JPG: 40" Reflector by C.O. Lamplane
115. LOWELL_220715_597.JPG: Whirl-Pool Nebula
116. LOWELL_220715_599.JPG: King Nebula in Lyra
117. LOWELL_220715_600.JPG: Halley's Comet
118. LOWELL_220715_605.JPG: Lagoon Nebula
119. LOWELL_220715_611.JPG: Star Cluster in Sagittarius
120. LOWELL_220715_623.JPG: The Millionaire
121. LOWELL_220715_634.JPG: NASA Lunar Globe
122. LOWELL_220715_662.JPG: Guest book signed by astronauts, geologists, and NASA officials on January 16, 1963
123. LOWELL_220715_720.JPG: View of Flagstaff from the Lowell Observatory pull-off
124. LOWELL_220715_746.JPG: Welcome to the City Overlook at Lowell Observatory Enjoy the View! Please keep it beautiful by not littering Private Property * No Loitering
Wikipedia Description: Lowell Observatory
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lowell Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. Lowell Observatory was established in 1894, placing it among the oldest observatories in the United States, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965. In 2011, the Observatory was named one of "The World's 100 Most Important Places" by Time Magazine. It was at the Lowell Observatory that the dwarf planet Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh.
The observatory was founded by astronomer Percival Lowell of Boston's Lowell family and is overseen by a sole trustee, a position historically handed down through the family. The first trustee was Lowell's third cousin Guy Lowell (1916–1927). Percival's nephew Roger Putnam served from 1927 to 1967, followed by Roger's son Michael (1967–1987), Michael's brother William Lowell Putnam III (1987–2013), and current trustee W. Lowell Putnam.
Multiple astronauts attended the Lowell Observatory in 1963 while the moon was being mapped for the Apollo Program.
The observatory operates several telescopes at three locations in the Flagstaff area. The main facility, located on Mars Hill just west of downtown Flagstaff, houses the original 61-centimeter (24-inch) Clark Refracting Telescope, which is now used for public education, with 85,000 annual visitors. The telescope, built in 1896 for $20,000, was assembled in Boston by Alvan Clark & Sons and then shipped by train to Flagstaff. Also located on the Mars Hill campus is the 33-centimeter (13-inch) Pluto Discovery Telescope, used by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 to discover the dwarf planet Pluto.
In 2014, the 8,000 square feet (740 m2) Putnam Center was opened. This observatory included many rooms with tools that were useful to observers including a library for research, a room for processing photographic glass plates, multiple antique instruments used by previous astronomers, and many artifacts. The observatory does contain areas that are closed to the public view, although there are multiple places that tourists are welcome to visit.
Lowell Observatory currently operates four research telescopes at its Anderson Mesa dark-sky site, located 20 km (12 mi) southeast of Flagstaff, including the 180-centimeter (72-inch) Perkins Telescope (in partnership with Boston University) and the 110-centimeter (42-inch) John S. Hall Telescope. Lowell is a partner with the United States Naval Observatory and Naval Research Laboratory in the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer (NPOI) also located at that site. The Observatory also operates smaller research telescopes at its historic site on Mars Hill and in Australia and Chile.
Past Anderson Mesa, on the peak of Happy Jack, Lowell Observatory built the 4.28-meter (169-inch) Lowell Discovery Telescope in partnership with Discovery Communications, Inc.

History

The observatory has carried out a wide array of research. One of its programs was the measurement of the variability of solar irradiance. When Harold L. Johnson took over as the director in 1952, the stated objective became to focus on light from the Sun reflecting from Uranus and Neptune. In 1953, the current 53 cm (21-inch) telescope was erected. Beginning in 1954, this telescope began monitoring the brightness of these two planets, and comparing these measurements with a reference set of Sun-like stars.
Self-taught astronomer Robert Burnham Jr. was an employee at Lowell observatory from 1958 – 1979, being known for his Celestial Handbook.
Beginning in 2012, Lowell Observatory began offering camps for children known as LOCKs (Lowell Observatory Camps for Kids). The first camp was established for elementary students. Later on, in 2013, they added an additional camp program for preschool children. The following year they added another program for middle school students. (“Kelly”, Manager at Lowell Observatory). Kids have the opportunity to learn hands-on about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through a variety of activities that include games, experiments, story time, art, music, and more.
In 2016, Kevin Schindler published Lowell Observatory, a 128-page book containing over 200 captions and pictures. Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America included it in their series, which increased the enthusiasm of space in the public. The book itself features the popular reputation of Lowell Observatory, encompassing the revolutionary research of scientists and how they contributed to the field of astronomy.
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