Anderson Mesa Station
On the second day of my tour of Lowell Observatory, I visited their professional facilities out on Anderson Mesa. This area includes a number of facilities including the 72" Perkins, 42" Hall, and Naval Observatory Interferometer (NOI). I also spent the night up on the mesa taking photographs of the night-sky. Unfortunately, due to fires and high winds the sky was not as dark as I would have liked, it was nevertheless unobstructed by urban-center light pollution and yielded some excellent viewing.
Read MoreNaval Observatory Interferometer. These facilities are hard to appreciate in photographs from the ground from the sheer size. Needless to say, the engineering and science involved in making this happen is beyond awesome. To put this facility into perspective, its working angular resolution devolves into a single-pixel on the Hubble space telescope. Let me put it this way. A single pixel from Hubble is where this facility begins.