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Kitt Peak National Observatory Beneath Star Trails (noirlab2512ae)
DESI Collaboration/DOE/KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/L. Tyas
19 March 2025 (upload date)
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Kitt Peak National Observatory Beneath Star Trails
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
The U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab, beneath streaking star trails, created by long-exposure photography. The tallest telescope seen is the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope, on which DESI is mounted.