Small Telescopes on 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

Our galaxy in the IR

Contributions of KPNO's Small Telescopes

Extensive network of photometric standard stars as well as extensive contributions in stellar photometry of variable stars and of stars in clusters. (0.4-m, 0.9-m and 1.3-m)

Systematic studies of star formation, including the interactions of young stellar objects and the surrounding medium, and the initial mass functions in obscured star forming regions. (1.3-m)

Spectroscopy of stars including spectral classification, stellar abundances, radial velocity curves of binary and variable stars, spectrophotometric studies of variable stars. (Coudé, 0.9-m)

Studies of the morphology of a wide variety of extended sources including planetary nebulae, H II regions, and galaxies. (0.9-m, Burrell Schmidt)

Imaging surveys including clusters of galaxies, HR diagrams of stellar clusters, samples of rare objects such as emission-line galaxies or dwarf C stars, large-scale structure, the Galactic halo. (0.9-m, Burrell Schmidt)

No. 1-36" telescope

Image Caption: The IR image above of our own Milky Way galaxy center was taken at the 1.3-m telescope with the SQIID instrument in 1991 by I. Gatley, M. Merrill, NOAO.

Kitt Peak 40th

National Optical Astronomy Observatories, 950 North Cherry Avenue, P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, Arizona 85726, Phone: (520) 318-8000, Fax: (520) 318-8360

webmaster@noao.edu
Last updated: 31Jul1998