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Solar Scope

The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona. The vertical section is almost 100 feet high, "from which a shaft slants two hundred feet to the ground. The shaft continues into the mountain, forming an underground tunnel where the sun is viewed at the prime focus."

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Uploaded on September 4, 2007
Taken on March 22, 2001