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2001

	Kitt Peak to get billion-pixel, $6.6M camera \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		The WIYN telescope, carrying the initials of the universities and the observatory, is currently capable of taking pictures of the night sky that are 1 degree across, about twice the size of the moon as seen from Earth.
		WIYN (pronounced "win") has always been fitted with sophisticated cameras that correct for the illusion that stars are wobbling, which is an effect of the Earth's atmosphere.
		WIYN's observations of distant supernovae, or exploding stars, have helped fuel the novel theory that the universe is accelerating at it expands.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/77095 (655 words)

	WIYN Observatory
		Indiana University is a founding member of the WIYN consortium which designed, constructed, and is now using a modern 3.5-meter telescope at Kitt Peak, about 50 miles southwest of Tucson AZ.
		WIYN is designed so that the telescope produces superior image quality, often as good as 0.5 arc seconds.
		The WIYN 0.9m telescope is located on the same ridge as the WIYN 3.5m telescope at Kitt Peak.
	www.astro.indiana.edu /wiyn.shtml (313 words)

	JTL's Picture Page
		Kitt Peak National Observatory is located in Arizona near the city of Tucson; KPNO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. (AURA) as part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO).
		Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory is located in Chile near the city of La Serena; CTIO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. (AURA) as part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO).
		The picture on the left is a view of the 2.15-meter telescope enclosure at dusk with the Andes behind the dome; the clouds moving in are a winter storm.
	www.astro.northwestern.edu /~jtl/pictures.html (1179 words)

	WIYN Video Clicker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The WIYN Observatory has a video system that carries 10 channels of information that is viewed on a standard video monitor.
		The WIYN Video Router is a box that has 10 video inputs on one side, and 10 video outputs on the other.
		At WIYN, each of the observatory television monitors has a bank of switches under it, allowing the viewer to select the channel being displayed.
	www.sal.wisc.edu /~jwp/wiyn/clicker.html (391 words)

	Observatory Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This shape, known as a truncated rhombi-cube octahedron, was patterned after the WIYN observatory located at Kitt Peak National Observatory.
		The Badlands dome and observatory was constructed by Ron Dyvig and several members of the Black Hills Astronomical Society.
		lobby area of the observatory, it can be seen that the telescope control room has viewing windows, allowing visitors to oversee the activities within.
	www.sdsmt.edu /space/boOBSTOUR.htm (634 words)

	Bill Keel's Telescope Life List - Kitt Peak
		The 4-meter dome is prominent at the north end, with the 2.1m, WIYN dome, and McMath solar telescope obvious to the south.
		The original (#1) 0.9m at Kitt Peak was demolished to make room for the 3.5m WIYN telescope, with the best components of both 0.9-m telescopes going into a single new "Frankenscope" (whose days are now numbered according to the latest NOAO budgetary plan).
		WIYN stands for the project partners - Wisconsin, Indiana, Yale, and NOAO - but kept an earlier pronunciation ("win"), no matter how appropriate the current letters might seem.
	www.astr.ua.edu /keel/telescopes/kpno.html (1467 words)

	Mt. Graham and the University of Arizona Astronomers
		University of Massachusetts Astronomy Department to argue to the Massachusetts legislature that they must locate their facilities out of state because the observing conditions in Massachusetts are inadequate for the purpose, but it is quite another to convince the Arizona legislature of the truth of that statement.
		In October 1994 the WIYN Observatory, owned and operated by the WIYN Consortium, which consists of the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, Yale University, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO), was dedicated.
		WIYN telescope on Kitt Peak in October 1994.
	www.hanksville.org /voyage/misc/MtGraham.html (4504 words)

	Kirkwood would see no gaps in IUB’s astronomy program
		In August, Catherine Pilachowski came to IU from the WIYN Observatory to become professor of astronomy and holder of the Kirkwood Chair of astronomy.
		The Kirkwood Observatory was built in 1900, and plans to honor its 100th anniversary include the current sprucing.
		The Kirkwood Chair, the observatory and the avenue east of the Old Crescent area of the Bloomington campus all are named for Daniel Kirkwood, the most distinguished astronomer to be associated with IU.
	www.indiana.edu /~ocmhp/120701/text/astronomy.html (311 words)

	WIYN Observatory User Handbook
		The WIYN Arcon-IRAF Interface document is a users guide to direct imaging using the Harcon controller at WIYN through an IRAF interface.
		Because WIYN is a new, high-tech telescope, it is one of the main attractions on Kitt Peak for observers at other KPNO facilities.
		Further information is contained in the KPNO Emergency Procedures manual and in the WIYN Safety Policy, both of which are located in the observing room of the telescope or available upon request to the Kitt Peak Support Office (kpno@noao.edu).
	www-kpno.kpno.noao.edu /wiyn/wiyn_user_guide.html (3055 words)

	Observer - - science news articles online technology magazine articles Observer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The 3.5-meter (137-inch) WIYN on Kitt Peak near Tucson in Arizona is the newest of 27 telescopes on the mountain and collects some of the world’s sharpest images, despite its relatively small primary mirror.
		The acronym WIYN stands for the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, Yale University, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO).
		WIYN uses a computer-controlled altitude-azimuth mount that can constantly change aim to follow an object through the sky.
	discover.com /issues/dec-04/departments/observer (543 words)

	WIYN Data Distribution and Archiving
		The WIYN Consortium consists of the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, Yale University and NOAO-the National Optical Astronomy Observatories.
		The motivations for a WIYN Archive and Data Distribution System are to enhance the total science output of the telescope over its lifetime and to ease the data distribution and handling process at all four WIYN institutions.
		An archive increases the total science output of the telescope as investigators attempt new problems with old data, and as statistically large samples of different classes of objects are accumulated, often from projects initially undertaken for a wide variety of purposes.
	www.cv.nrao.edu /adass/adassVI/seamanr1.html (1586 words)

	Kitt Peak Animation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As the Sun crossed through the plane of Saturn's rings during the nights of November 18 to 23, 1995, about 200 CCD images of Saturn's satellite and ring system were obtained in B, V, R, I, and the 890 nm methane band under sub-arcsecond seeing conditions.
		The observations were made using the Indiana University coronagraphic adaptor and re-imaging module on the 3.5m WIYN telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona.
		The WIYN Observatory is a joint facility of the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, Yale University, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatories.
	www2.jpl.nasa.gov /saturn/anim5.html (445 words)

	SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3349
		The WIYN telescope is ideally suited to queue-scheduled operation in terms of its performance and its instrument complement.
		In order to maximize the scientific results from an observatory in a service mode operations model, the observatory needs to be committed to performing a standard data quality evaluation on all science observations to assist users in their data evaluation and to provide data quality information to the observatory archive.
		Abstract: The WIYN 3.5 meter telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona is operated by a consortium involving three universities and the National Optical Astronomical Observatories (NOAO) each with their own set of scientific requirements and research objectives.
	www.spie.org /web/abstracts/3300/3349.html (10589 words)

	WIYN Consortium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		WIYN Consortium consists of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (W), Indiana University (I), Yale University (Y), and the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (N).
		The universities financed the construction of the WIYN Observatory at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in 1994.
		In 2001, the WIYN Consortium took over control of the KPNO 36-inch telescope, built in 1960, and rechristened it as the WIYN 0.9m Telescope.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WIYN_Consortium (119 words)

	Frank Edmondson
		Later the same year, an anonymous donor added funds to double the endowment, converting the professorship to a fully endowed chair, and also created another endowment in support of the WIYN Observatory in Arizona.
		IU is a founding member of the WIYN consortium which designed, constructed and is now using the facility at Kitt Peak, about 50 miles southwest of Tucson.
		In August, Catherine Pilachowski came to IU from the WIYN Observatory to become Professor of Astronomy and holder of the Daniel Kirkwood Chair of Astronomy.
	www.aip.org /history/historymatters/edmondson.htm (587 words)

	WIYN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		YN 3.5 meter (11.4 feet, 137 inches) telescope was completed in the summer of 1994 and is fully commissioned on
		YN is a collaboration between Wisconsin, Indiana, Yale, and NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatories).
		Already the telescope has produced stunning images and animations of the recent Saturn ring crossing.
	www.astro.indiana.edu /facilities/observatories/wiyn (124 words)

	New camera planned for observatory
		The WIYN telescope, carrying the initials of the universities, is currently capable of taking pictures of the night sky that are one degree across, about twice the size of the moon as seen from Earth.
		WIYN's observations of supernovae, or exploding stars, have helped fuel the theory that the universe is accelerating at it expands.
		But soon after WIYN was built, astronomers learned to make better use of pictures, and the WIYN stood ready to help them.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/local/articles/0530telescope30.html (459 words)

	WIYN celebrates five years (Nov 7, 2001)
		The WIYN Observatory on Kitt Peak in southern Arizona celebrated its five-year anniversary recently.
		The centerpiece of the WIYN Observatory is a strikingly modern telescope with a 3.5-meter diameter mirror and sophisticated forefront instruments, including a spectrograph that can deploy optical fibers to analyze the light from 100 celestial objects simultaneously.
		The WIYN consortium recently expanded its reach with the acquisition of the historic 0.9-meter telescope next door on Kitt Peak.
	www.news.wisc.edu /6785.html (253 words)

	WIYN Observatory - Free net encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The WIYN Observatory is owned and operated by the WIYN Consortium.
		Its telescope, a 3.5-meter instrument, is the newest and second largest telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory.
		Most of the capital costs of the observatory were provided by the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and Yale University, while the National Optical Astronomy Observatory provides most of the operating services.
	www.netipedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /index.php/WIYN_Observatory (95 words)

	Case, WIYN astronomers discover new galaxy orbiting Andromeda
		Heather Morrison, Paul Harding and Denise Hurley-Keller of Case's department of astronomy and George Jacoby of the WIYN Observatory in Tucson, Ariz., will report their discovery in an upcoming article, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
		The astronomers used Case's Burrell Schmidt telescope and the 3.5m WIYN telescope to identify the galaxy.
		The WIYN 3.5-meter telescope is a partnership of the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, Yale University and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO).
	www.case.edu /pubaff/univcomm/2003/9-03/galaxy.htm (821 words)

	Gravitational Lens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The gravitational lens was observed on April 25 by Nicholas Morgan, a post-doctoral fellow at the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, using the 3.5-meter WIYN Telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona.
		The WIYN Observatory is owned and operated by the WIYN Consortium, which consists of the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, Yale University, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatories.
		An I-band image of the new gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS taken with the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope in 0.3-arcsecond seeing at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona.
	www.yale.edu /ycaa/lens.html (418 words)

	WIYN: A New Technology Telescope on Kitt Peak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The WIYN Observatory, a joint venture between the University of Wisconsin (W), Indiana University (I), Yale University (Y), and the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (N), is a new technology alt-az 3.5m telescope located on Kitt Peak.
		The measured WIYN median DIQ was 0.7'' FWHM for the period June 1994 through January 1995.
		The WIYN control system is based on a distributed network of real-time and time-sharing processors linked together by a low-bandwidth asynchronous message passing system.
	www.aas.org /publications/baas/v27n2/aas186/abs/S4403.html (321 words)

	Universe Today - Astronomers Find a Transparent Galaxy
		The new galaxy is so widespread and transparent that astronomers did not suspect its existence until they mapped the velocity of stars thought to belong to the well-known and nearby large Andromeda spiral galaxy and found them to move independently of Andromeda.
		Both telescopes are located at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Ariz. NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) Inc., under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
		The newly found galaxy is being torn apart into streams of stars, which leaves a trail of stars that are strung out along the new galaxy's orbit around the Andromeda galaxy in the way a jet's contrail shows its route.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/transparent_galaxy_found.html (856 words)

	Arizona Daily Star
		The telescope is run by a consortium of Wisconsin, Indiana and Yale universities and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.
		The world-class observatory, 55 miles southwest of Tucson, now has two 16-inch telescopes available for either 31/2-hour nighttime viewing or overnight viewing, which includes room and board.
		The Tucson-based National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which operates Kitt Peak, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday for the new observatory.
	www.azstarnet.com /clips/kittpeakpeek.html (1130 words)

	Arthur B. Code: Astrophysicist and Space Age Astronomer
		At Yerkes Observatory the major professor for my thesis research was Chandrasekhar, who many years later received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
		When I left Yerkes Observatory, I went to the University of Virginia, where I started a photometry program and constructed a photoelectric photometer before returning the next year to the University of Wisconsin.
		He is currently in Arizona where he serves as a consultant for the WIYN Observatory.
	www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/code1.html (1301 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| Rare spherical nebula helps measure composition of stars
		This image of it was taken at the WIYN Observatory's 3.5-meter (138-inch) telescope, through a blue-green filter that isolates the light emitted by oxygen atoms in the nebula at a wavelength of 500.7 nanometers.
		The WIYN Observatory is located at Kitt Peak National Observatory outside Tucson, AZ.
		Kitt Peak is part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated for the National Science Foundation by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc.
	spaceflightnow.com /news/n0101/09rarenebula (767 words)

	Fast Aspheric Optics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The observations will utilize the 3.5 meter WIYN Telescope, the newest and second largest telescope on Kitt Peak.
		Space restrictions between the observatory floor and the end of the telescope required the spectrographic apparatus be contained within about 30 inches.
		The WIYN Observatory is owned and operated by the WIYN Consortium, which consists of the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, Yale University, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO).
	www.rfroyce.com /quest_spectrograph.htm (203 words)

	Mass Transfer in the Galaxy Pair NGC 1409/10
		The WIYN Observatory is owned and operated by the WIYN Consortium, Inc., which consists of the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, Yale University, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO).
		The dust lane leaves NGC 1410, crosses the gap, and disappears where it would go behind the starlight of NGC 1409 if it connects to the polar dust seen in front of the nucleus; in fact the STIS data give some support from color data that it is going behind rather than ending.
		The situation can be further explored, using a velocity map of the ionized gas in these galaxies obtained in December 2000 with the Dense-Pak fiber array at the 3.5-m WIYN telescope on Kitt Peak.
	www.astr.ua.edu /keel/research/ngc1410.html (1740 words)

	Star cluster with similarities to sun's composition offers clues on Milky Way's evolution \| SpaceRef Canada - Your ...
		Indiana is one of the major partners in the two Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-National Optical Astronomy Observatory (WIYN) telescopes on Kitt Peak in Arizona.
		The WIYN consortium assumed operation of the historic 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak in fall 2001 to enable the telescope to serve as a complement to the existing 3.5-meter WIYN telescope on Kitt Peak, and to offer a facility for hands-on learning and research by students at the three partner universities.
		Located southwest of Tucson, Ariz., Kitt Peak National Observatory is part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
	www.spaceref.ca /news/viewpr.html?pid=8520 (1271 words)

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