Winer Observatory is an

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near

Sonoita, Arizona Sonoita (; ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States. The population was 803 at the 2020 census. The origin of the name of the CDP is the O'odham ''Ṣon ʼOidag'', which may be best translated as "sp ...

in the

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. It is a private, non-profit observatory, operated by Mark and Pat Trueblood since 1983. It has been the site of a number of significant

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s and famous

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s, including the Iowa Robotic Observatory, Michael Schwartz's supernova survey telescope (until

Tenagra Observatories Tenagra Observatory and Tenagra Observatory II are astronomical observatories in Cottage Grove, Oregon and Arizona. The observatories house heavily automated robotic telescopes. Circa 2016, the observatory was utilized with the Katzman Automatic ...

opened a facility in the area), and the

Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (or KELT) is an astronomical observation system formed by two robotic telescopes that are conducting a survey for transiting exoplanets around bright stars. The project is jointly administered by members ...

that discovered over 30 exoplanets. It now houses the Iowa telescope, a telescope owned by a university in Poland, and the Sutter Survey telescope owned by asteroid mining company TransAstra.

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