Arizona Public Media is airing a series of special reports on astronomy in Arizona called "Collecting Light."  Click here to see the list of topics.  The MMT Observatory is featured in Part 3: The Age of the Giant Telescope.

Photos taken from the MMT Observatory of the May 20th annular eclipse, looking toward Kitt Peak National Observatory. Click on the image to view in a larger format. 

Over the past year, the MMTO mountain facilities and campus offices have undergone network upgrades.  Completed upgrades include: CAT 6 cabling; installation of CISCO gigabit network switches and CISCO wireless routers for mountain operations; upgrade of microwave link between the campus office and the summit; installation of fiber connections between the network switch within the MMTO drive room and 2nd and 3rd floors; VOIP phones at the MMT/summit; and segregating Univ. of Arizona, Smithsonian Institution, and MMTO network traffic. For more details, click on the title above.