Celebrations Planned for 30th Anniversary of Vatican Observatory's Arizona Telescope
The VATT, which is paid for by private donations, is today located on a mountaintop in rural Arizona about 200 miles southeast of Phoenix.
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The VATT, which is paid for by private donations, is today located on a mountaintop in rural Arizona about 200 miles southeast of Phoenix.
In 1981, the Vatican Observatory launched a research center under the famously dark Arizona skies, where it inaugurated its telescope in 1993.
The Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT) on Mount Graham in southern Arizona. / Credit: Vatican Observatory CNA Staff, Sep 29, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA). The Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT) on Mount Graham in southern Arizona c...
Bailey Dilgard has a dead porcupine in the bed of her truck. That’s one of the things I notice when I accompany her down a remote, rutted road in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests south of Vernon. The porcupine’s sharp quills, she explains, were no match for a car tire on State Route 260, the main east-west route through Eastern Arizona’s White Mountains. When she saw the roadkill, she picked it up to keep other animals from scavenging it and meeting the same fate.
Contributed article PIMA — The Eastern Arizona Science Initiative (EASI) was the recipient of $1,500 from the Modern Woodmen Fraternal Financial of Graham