Steward Observatory
The Steward Observatory is the astronomical research facility of the University of Arizona , in close association with its astronomy department. Established in 1916, the observatory is headquartered on the University of Tucson campus . The research facilities of the Vatican Observatory are also located there .
The Steward Observatory is involved in telescopes at several ground-based observatories:
- Mount Graham : 2 × 8.4 m Large Binocular Telescope , 1.8 m VATT with the Vatican Observatory, 10 m Heinrich Hertz telescope
- Mount Hopkins 6.5-m " Multiple Mirror Telescope "
- Las Campanas Observatory : 2 × 6.5 m Magellan telescopes
- Kitt Peak : 12 m radio telescope, 2.3 m Bok telescope, 1.8 m and 0.9 m Spacewatch telescopes, 0.6 m Super LOTIS
- Mount Lemmon : 1.52 and 1.0 m telescopes
- Catalina Station (Mount Bigelow): 1.55 m and 0.5 m telescopes
The Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory manufactures telescope mirrors up to 8.4 m in diameter, currently for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and the planned Giant Magellan Telescope with seven 8.4 m mirrors.
The Steward Observatory was or is involved in the development of instruments for the space telescopes IRAS , HST , Spitzer , JWST .