Pictures from the Early Years at Kitt Peak

KPNO is a division of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation

Enjoy with us some pictures from our photo archives of the early days at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. For more history about the U.S. National Observatories see if your library has the book "AURA and its US National Observatories" by Frank K. Edmondson, Indiana University.

Kitt Peak - 1958

Initial lease agreement - 1958	Site survey telescope

Seeing monitors - 1957	Old road (courtesty of E. Carpenter) - 1957

Today Show - 1978	Tohono O'odham crafts

4-m mirror arrives - 1967

Kitt Peak 40th

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