Kitt Peak National Observatory and the road to it remain closed to the public three weeks after the Contreras wildfire threatened its telescopes.
Henry Brean Kitt Peak National Observatory and the road leading up to it remain closed to the public, three weeks after a wildfire threatened the mountaintop collection of telescopes.
The blaze was sparked by lightning in the Baboquivari Mountains on June 11 and spread for just over two weeks, forcing the evacuation of Kitt Peak and the Tohono O’odham community of Pan Tak.Photos taken after the fire swept past the peak show patches of burned trees and brush within a few yards of some telescope domes.
Power lines supplying the site were damaged by the fire and could take several weeks to repair, observatory officials said in a written statement Wednesday. On its website, NOIRLab describes Kitt Peak as “the most diverse collection of astronomical observatories on Earth for nighttime optical and infrared astronomy.”
In July 2007, firefighters set up defenses around Kitt Peak during the Alambre Fire, but that roughly 7,300-acre blaze never seriously jeopardized the observatory.
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