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Prescott Observatory is the designation of a group of remotely-located assets of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona. The Lowell Observatory website includes a reference to equipment "on Mars Hill" at Prescott Observatory: http://members.cox.net/kimberly.124/Arizona2000/lowell.html The equipment in Prescott is apparently capable of being remotely operated: {Link without Title}
Prescott Arizona, located about 95 driving miles from Flagstaff, is one of the places Percival Lowell considered when seeking the ideal site in Arizona to establish a new observatory. The observatory in Flagstaff was founded in 1894. Lowell did many Mars observations and drew maps of what he saw. |
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