Multiple Mirror Telescope at Mount Hopkins

ID: 2003-19518

Creator: Ladd, Gary

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1989

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: May 1989

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Summary

Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT), a joint facility of the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona, rises above the Arizona desert on the summit of Mount Hopkins in southern Arizona.

Subject

  • Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory
  • Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Featured in Torch, May 1989

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: May 1989

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1989

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Observatories
  • Field stations
  • Instruments
  • Observing (field) stations
  • Astronomy
  • Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
  • Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory--Field stations

Place

Arizona

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Object

ID Number

2003-19518

Physical description

Color: Black and white; Size: 8 x 10; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print

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