Tumamoc Hill dome

This view is across the Tucson Mountains to Tumamoc Hill where this dome is backdropped against Pusch Ridge in the Catalina Mountains. This image was taken at 300mm focal length with an exposure of 1/2000 seconds at f/9, ISO 400.

Tumamoc Telescope

This is one of the telescopes on Tumamoc Hill. It's about a 10 inch Newtonian. I believe the UofA's astronomy club used this telescope. It was pretty dusty inside the dome....

Tumamoc Telescopes I

This is the dome of the 20 inch telescope on Tumamoc Hill. It was built here in the late 1960s or early 1970s. It was used quite extensively in the 1980s to image comet Halley.

Tumamoc Hill pan

I took the images that made up this pan about 6 years ago with my old Fuji Finepix 2650 P&S camera from the southeast end of Tumamoc Hill, not too far from the UofA's 20 inch telescope dome. A Mountain is just right of center with the downtown area to its left and the Rincon Mountains in the distance a little farther left. This pan was put to use on a new Pima County website about their recent acquisition of Tumamoc Hill from the UofA.