The UArizona-managed Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham is the only one of its kind, with two 27-foot mirrors mounted side by side. A powerful adaptive optics system compensates for ...

Located in Arizona's Pinaleno Mountains at an altitude of about 7,545 feet, the Large Binocular Telescope operates under an international collaboration between the U.S., Italy, and Germany.

To do this, they had to request observation time for the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) and the Lowell Discovery Telescope in Arizona. "To get time on a large telescope is very competitive," she ...