The image issued with NOAO Press Release 98-09 is shown below in GIF format. You may also download a PDF version of this image or the individual images in higher resolution:
Image caption: Kitt Peak National Observatory observes its 40th anniversary in October of 1998 as the first national astronomical observatory. Located on lands of the Tohono O'odham Nation in the Sonoran Desert southwest of Tucson, Arizona, Kitt Peak today is home to the world's largest collection of optical telescopes. Highlights of four decades of astronomical research at Kitt Peak can be seen at http://www.noao.edu/kpno/40th/.
NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
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