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The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) is a United States astronomical observatory located on 2,096 m (6,880 ft) Kitt Peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert on the Tohono O'odham Nation, 88 kilometers (55 mi) southwest of Tucson. The observatory is considered to be part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), although some of the telescopes located here belong to other groups.
Some examples of this include the MDM Observatory which is owned and operated by the University of Michigan, Dartmouth College, Ohio State University, Columbia University, and Ohio University and the Burrell Schmidt telescope at the Warner and Swasey Observatory which belongs to Case Western Reserve University. With 26 independent telescopes, it is the largest, most diverse gathering of astronomical instruments in the world.
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