Steward Observatory

The Steward Observatory is an astronomical research facility of the University of Arizona, in close connection with their astronomy department. The observatory was founded in 1916 has its head office on the university campus in Tucson. There are also the research facilities of the Vatican Observatory.

The Steward Observatory is involved in ground-based telescopes at several observatories:

  • Mount Graham: 2 x 8.4 m Large Binocular Telescope, 1.8 m VATT with the Vatican Observatory, 10m Heinrich Hertz Telescope.
  • Mount Hopkins 6.5 m Multiple Mirror Telescope.
  • Las Campanas Observatory - 2 x 6.5 m Magellan telescopes.
  • Kitt Peak 12m radio telescope, 2.3 m Bok Telescope, 1.8 m and 0.9 m Spacewatch Telescope, 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 ' provides telescope mirrors up to 8.4 m in diameter ago, the time for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and the Giant Magellan Telescope planned with seven 8.4 meter mirrors.

The Steward Observatory was or is involved in the development of instruments for space telescopes IRAS, HST, Spitzer, JWST.

Tucson, Arizona Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope Mount Hopkins (Arizona) Integrated Authority File
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