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In October2002 I visited Arizona. During the trip I visited the meteor crater near Flagstaff and the Lowell Observatory.
Here are a few of the pictures.
Clark telescope - used by
Percival Lowell when he thought he could see the canals of Mars.Here are pic
tures of the dome and telescope used by Clyde Tombaugh to discover Pluto in 1930. It is a 13-inch astrograph, installed at Lowell Observatory on Mars Hill in 1929.There are lots more details at the
observatory website here.