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	Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
		an astronomical observatory in the Chilean Andes having a 156-in.
	www.infoplease.com /ipd/A0367080.html (27 words)

	Kitt Peak National Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1982 NOAO was formed to consolidate the management of three optical observatories — Kitt Peak, the National Solar Observatory facilities at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, New Mexico, and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
		The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) is a United States astronomical observatory located on a 2,096 m (6,880 ft) peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert on the Tohono O'odham Nation, 88 kilometres (55 miles) southwest of Tucson.
		The observatory is considered to be part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), although some of the telescopes located here, like those at the MDM Observatory, belong to other groups.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kitt_Peak_National_Observatory (347 words)

	Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) is a complex of astronomical telescopes and instruments located approximately 80 km to the East of La Serena, Chile at an altitude of 2200 meters.
		The complex is part of the NOAO along with Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.
		One of the two 8-meter telescopes comprising the Gemini Observatory is co-located with CTIO on AURA property in Chile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cerro_Tololo_Inter-American_Observatory (169 words)

	Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
		A complex of astronomical telescopes and instruments located 70 km east of La Serena, Chile, at an altitude of about 2,200 m on Cerro Tololo mountain.
		Founded in 1963 and part of the U.S. National Optical Astronomy Observatories, its main instrument is the 4-meter Blanco Telescope, opened in 1976, that is the southern twin of the 4-m instrument at Kitt Peak National Observatory.
		On a peak 10 kilometers to the southeast is the 8-meter Gemini South telescope.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/C/CTIO.html (153 words)

	Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
		Cerro Tololo, as seen from a small airplane flying to the landing strip of La Silla observatory.
		It is located on a mountain top near Vicuna, within sight of La Silla observatory.
		CTIO is the southern-most of three major observatories in the Chilean Andes, in the area of La Serena (which are Las Campanas to the North, La Silla in the middle and CTIO itself).
	www.atnf.csiro.au /people/mdahlem/obs/opt/ctio.html (281 words)

	Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory on Encyclopedia.com
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		(sā´rō tōlō´lō), astronomical observatory located on Cerro Tololo peak, Chile, with offices in La Serena, about 40 mi (64 km) to the west.
		Also at Cerro Tololo, a half mile from the summit, is a 24-in.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/cerrot1ol.asp (289 words)

	Columbia, Cerro Tololo Team Decodes Events That Led To Brightest Supernova In 400 Years
		Astronomers from Columbia University and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have measured events that will help scientists discover what led to the brilliant explosion of Supernova 1987A, the brightest supernova observed from Earth in nearly four centuries.
		Now, the Columbia-Cerro Tololo team has measured the velocities of the major components of the nebula around Supernova 1987A, allowing their formation to be tied to the evolutionary phases on the star prior to explosion.
		Using the four-meter reflecting telescope at Cerro Tololo, they found that the entire nebula is at least 200,000 years old and probably several times older.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1998-01/CU-CCTT-080198.php (670 words)

	Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		astronomical observatory founded in 1965 in Chile as the southern branch of the Kitt Peak National Observatory.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9022154?tocId=9022154 (901 words)

	Gemini Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Very dry air and negligible cloud cover make this another prime telescope location (shared by several other observatories, including the SOAR Telescope and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory).
		The Gemini Observatory's international headquarters is located in Hilo, Hawaii at the University of Hawaii at Hilo's University Park.
		This partnership is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), and the headquarters of the observatory are located in Hilo, Hawaii.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gemini_Observatory (356 words)

	The Gemini 8m Telescopes Project - Cerro Pachon
		Cerro Pachon is located 10 kilometers southeast of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, at 2715m in the foothills of the Chilean Andes.
		Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) is located on a nearby mountain top, within the same AURA land-holding.
		Cerro Pachon is a mostly undeveloped site located on land owned by AURA.
	www.gemini.edu /public/pachon.html (194 words)

	Bill Keel's Telescope Life List -Cerro Tololo
		Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Cerro Tololo, IVa Region, Chile
		Telescopes I've Used - Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
		The southern-hemisphere counterpart to Kitt Peak, Cerro Tololo is situated in the foothills of the Andes, above the Elqui River valley inland of La Serena.
	www.astr.ua.edu /keel/telescopes/ctio.html (613 words)

	Curtis Schmidt Telescope
		The Curtis Schmidt telescope is a 0.61/0.91 meter diameter Schmidt telescope located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, about 500 km north of Santiago, Chile.
		This telescope was originally installed at the University of Michigan's Portage Lake Observatory in 1950, and moved to the much clearer skies of north central Chile in 1966.
	www.astro.lsa.umich.edu /obs/schmidt (53 words)

	APOD: 2004 March 13 - A Cerro Tololo Sky
		Chilean mountain lies one of the premier observatories of the southern sky: the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO).
		The observatory structures are lit solely by starlight.
		A single 20 second exposure, this digital image was recorded with a sensitive detector intended for astronomical imaging.
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap040313.html (149 words)

	CfA Press Release
		Based in La Serena, Chile, the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory is part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
		Using the 4.0-meter Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile, and the 3.6-meter Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, Hawaii, they took multiple exposures of the sky surrounding the planet Neptune.
		The European Southern Observatory is an intergovernmental, European organization for astronomical research.
	cfa-www.harvard.edu /press/pr0303.html (749 words)

	SPACE.com -- Supernova Photographed in Earliest Stage
		This image of Supernova 2002dj was taken by the 0.9-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile on 14 June 2002.
		Like some celestial coroner, the.9-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has uncovered a truth from the death of a star.
		This was one of the earliest recorded observations of a supernova, but a cooperative effort between the Lick Observatory at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and Tenagra Observatories in both Oregon and Arizona helped spot the supernova even earlier, with the 0.8-meter Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope at Lick.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/astronomy/early_supernova_020627.html (905 words)

	UVA Astronomical Observatories
		Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Palomar Observatory, Las Campanas Observatory, and the Hubble Space Telescope.
		The observatory is used for research involving instrument development and optical imaging and spectroscopy.
		The Fan Mountain Observatory is open to the public twice a year, contact the Astronomy Department for details.
	www.astro.virginia.edu /research/observatories (504 words)

	Telescopes and Observatories
		The National Optical Astronomy Observatory was formed in 1982 to consolidate all AURA-managed ground-based astronomical observatories (Kitt Peak National Observatory, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, and the National Solar Observatory with facilities at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico and Kitt Peak, Arizona) under a single Director.
		The observatory is located atop the summit of Mauna Kea, a 4200 meter, dormant volcano located on the island of Hawaii.
		The Observatory is owned by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and is funded by the CNRS and the Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (INSU).
	www.waoline.com /science/Astrophysic/AstrPhyObervastory.htm (1043 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - inter-American
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	encarta.msn.com /inter-American.html (155 words)

	BBC NEWS Science/Nature Three largest stars identified
		The international team made new observations of the stars from the 2.1m (84 inch) telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, and the 1.5m (60 inch) telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, in Chile.
		The new research was presented on Monday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Diego, US.
		The red "supergiant" stars are more than 1.5 billion km across, pushing the previous record holder, Herschel's "Garnet Star", into fourth place.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/4164365.stm (342 words)

	NOAO Press Release 03-10: Walker Named Director of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
		Alistair Walker has been confirmed by the AURA Observatories Council as the new director of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in La Serena, Chile.
		Walker succeeds Dr. Malcolm Smith, who steps down as CTIO director after 10 years of service leading a diverse observatory that provides U.S. astronomers with competitive access to the skies of the southern hemisphere, as part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO).
		Based in Tucson, AZ, NOAO consists of three major divisions: CTIO, Kitt Peak National Observatory (located southwest of Tucson) and the NOAO Gemini Science Center.
	www.noao.edu /outreach/press/pr03/pr0310.html (440 words)

	Astronomy, stargazers use Chile observatory
		While the Community Observatory at Cerro Mamalluca is open for public viewing, the rest of these observatories are only open for tours during the daytime.
		The European Southern Observatory, representing a coalition of eight European nation, maintains La Silla Observatory and Paranal Observatory further north; here the ESO is busy at work on the last of four 8.2 meter telescopes which together comprise the Very Large Telescope (VLT).
		Las Campanas Observatory, owned by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, is in the process of adding two 6.5 meter telescopes to their installations near La Serena.
	www.visit-chile.org /activities/astronomy.phtml (609 words)

	Terry D. Oswalt, Professor
		Our observational data is obtained at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, and Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, where telescopes as large as 4-meters (156-inches) are available on a competitive basis to scientists.
		We also are constructing the largest computer-automated telescope in the Southeast, and have organized the Southeast Association for Research in Astronomy consortium of universities to establish a similar automated 1-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona.
		Program objects have also been observed with the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite and the Hubble Space Telescope.
	pss.fit.edu /oswalt.html (379 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Telescope Dome
		Most domes, such as this one at Cerro Tololo Observatory in northern Chile, rotate so that the telescope can point toward and track objects across most of the sky.
		An opening in the top of the dome gives the telescope access to the sky.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461543773/Telescope_Dome.html (60 words)

	Information about U.S. FDC: 60¢ Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
		Today, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy operates Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory while funding is provided by the National Science Foundation.
		Kuiper's intuition was proved correct with the successful completion of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in 1976.
		After considering hundreds of possible locations, astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper decided Chile's Cerro Tololo Mountain would be the best place to construct a major observatory for lunar and planetary research.
	www.unicover.com /EA1CA5AU.HTM (419 words)

	Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) Pictures
		The image was made using an infrared camera built by Ohio State University and the 4-meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO) at La Serena, Chile.
		Technical details: Image taken at 2:30 UT on July 18, 1994, with the Ohio State Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (OSIRIS) at the 4-meter telescope of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, by John Spencer (Lowell Observatory), and Darren DePoy and Jay Frogel (Ohio State University).
		Technical details: Images taken between 2:06 and 2:18 UT on July 18, 1994, with the Ohio State Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (OSIRIS) at the 4-meter telescope of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, by John Spencer (Lowell Observatory), Darren DePoy, Jay Frogel (Ohio State University), and Nick Schneider (CU/LASP).
	www.shoestring.net /comet/comet1.html (538 words)

	Bob Harrington Obituary
		At Swarthmore he naturally came under the influence of Peter van de Kamp and Sara Lippincott of Sproul Observatory, and consequently was well-schooled in the classical techniques of photographic astrometry, including observing with the 60cm refractor, as well as measuring and reducing the results.
		Bob's inspired guess that the period of revolution matched the already known period of light variation resulted in rapid determination of the orbital elements, and hence the mass of both planet and satellite.
		He served as a joint editor of four books, was a member of the AAS, the IAU (where he served on four commissions), the Planetary Society, and the Society of Sigma Xi.
	ad.usno.navy.mil /wds/history/harrington.html (907 words)

	SHASSA
		The observations were taken with a robotic camera operating at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.
		SHASSA is now included in NASA's Skyview Virtual Observatory.
		A similar survey (VTSS) of the northern hemisphere sky is being carried out at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
	amundsen.swarthmore.edu /SHASSA (575 words)

	Pinpointing a Stellar Neighbor by Ken Croswell
		Using the 0.9-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, they detected the star's parallax--the small shift that results in the star's apparent position because astronomers view it from slightly different directions as Earth orbits the Sun.
		In 2002, Mary Putman, now at the University of Michigan, and Adam Burgasser, now at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, detected two giant radio flares the star had spewed into space.
		The star's discoverers noted it spins at 27 kilometers per second (60,000 mph)--quite fast for a red star.
	kencroswell.com /DENIS1048.html (532 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 96044634
		The science and politics of the establishment, funding, construction and operation of the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) are here seen from the unique perspective of Frank K. Edmondson, a former member of the AURA board of directors.
		Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Kitt Peak National Observatory History, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory History, Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy History
		AURA was asked to manage the Sacramento Peak Observatory (SPO) in 1976, and in 1983 the National Solar Observatory (NSO) was formed by merging theSPO and the KPNO solar programs.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam028/96044634.html (219 words)

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