The Lowell Observer

2024 no. 1, Issue 131

• Shrouded in Daylight
• Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks: Not that Devilish!
• Jeff Hall Dark Sky Challenge
• Lisa Actor Moves Toward Retirement
• Digital Preservation
• Pluto Arizona’s Official State Planet
• Staff Profile: Ben Hardesty
• Historic Images Coming Online
• For the Kids – Native American Designs
• Thanks for your 2023 Support

2023 no. 3, Issue 130

• Remembering Ted Bowell
• Slipher Bros Inducted into High School Hall of Fame
• Disaster Preparedness in the Archives
• Capital Campaign Ended
• Staff Profile: Michael Sweaton
• For the Kids: Native American Symbols

2023 no. 2, Issue 129

• The Colors of Asteroids
• Communicating Science Under Arctic Skies
• The Archives and Social Media
• Lessons in Astronomy, a Poem
• Grand Canyon Residency
• William Tifft Endowment
• Staff Profile: Catie Blazek
• Fun Ways to Support the ADC
• For the Kids: Learn Navajo

2023 no. 1, Issue 128

• Tiny but Mighty: Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxy WLM
• Finally Back in Chile
• Exploration Fund to Benefit from Cal Tech Alumni
• I Heart Pluto Festival Pictures
• News from the Archives
• Weathering the Snowy Season
• Staff Profile: Kevin White
• Orbits Curiosity: A New Beginning to an Old Adventure

2022 no. 4, Issue 127

• DART Mission is a Success
• Analyzing DART’s Ejecta
• Clyde Tombaugh’s Remarkable 9-inch Telescope
• The Exciting Journey of the Tombaugh Telescope to Lowell Observatory
• Ask an Educator: Enduring the Cold
• Staff Highlight: Sarah Gilbert
• I Heart Pluto Festival Set for February 18-20, 2023
• The Exploration Fund
• For the Kids: Word Search

2022 no. 3, Issue 126

• Active Small Bodies in the Solar System
• Lowell Observatory Names First Percival Lowell Fellow
• Dr. Hunter’s Retirement from NAAOP
• LDT by the Numbers
• New Astrophotography Program
• Staff Profile: Dr. Ellsworth-Bowers
• Internship Results in Online Exhibits
• Eclipse Over Texas: Live from Waco
• For the Kids: Constellations
• Slipher Society Loves Science

2022 no. 2, Issue 125

• Fun with Photons
• Youngest Asteroid Pair Detected
• Third Annual I Heart Pluto Festival
• Studying the Evolution of Wolf-Rayet Stars
• Journey to Pluto Science Show
• A Decade of the LDT
• Staff Profile: Dr. Christoph Keller
• Fundraising Review
• For the Kids: Weight on Other Planets
• An Intern’s Chance to Give Back

2022 no. 1, Issue 124

• The Lucy Mission
• Gerard van Belle Heads Star Survey of Giant Stars
• ADC Site Atop Ancient Lava Flow
• New Study Casts Light on Dark Matter, Formation of Milky Way
• Celebrating 10 Years of the LDT
• The Scientific Legacy of the 42-inch Lampland Telescope
• Clyde Tombaugh Crow Jokes
• Dispatches from the Universe: Night Vision
• Employee and Team of the Year
• For Kids: Crossword Puzzle

2021 no. 3, Issue 123

• Lowell Observatory Breaks Ground on Astronomy Discovery Center
• Variability of Emission Lins in Gamma-ray Bright Quasars
• 60 Second Ask an Astronomer
• New Website, Updated Logo Unveiled
• Digitizing the Lowell Plate Collection
• The Milky Way in Ten Numbers
• The Dyer Telescope
• Staff Highlight: Anne LaBruzzo
• Meet Mike Beckage
• Mariner Mars Globe

2021 no. 2, Issue 122

Special Research Issue

• The Quest to Understand Dark Energy
• Deciphering Contact Binary TNOs
• Searching for Star Companions
• Research Telescopes of Lowell
• What is a Wolf-Rayet Star?
• Dwarf Irregular Galaxy Research
• Lab Studies of Methane and Ethane
• Staff Highlight: Brian Skiff
• Comets Borisov & NEOWISE
• New Method for Detecting the Youngest Planets
• The Slipher Society

2021 no. 1, Issue 121

Special Astronomy Discovery Center (ADC) Issue

• The Kemper & Ethel Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center
• The ADC Planning & Design Team
• Staff Highlight: Samantha Gorney
• Funding the Dream: Turning Vision into Reality
• Artist Renderings
• Otto & Gallina Franz and the Cosmic Classroom
• Naming Opportunities
• The Diverse Universe

Fall 2020, Issue 120

• Cool, Pulsating Yellow Supergiants Found in the Large Magellanic Cloud
• Lowell Scientists Help Characterize 2nd Known Minimoon
• New Fund for Premium Access Experiences
• New Operations Manager Amanda Bosh
• Robert Burnham and his Celestial Handbook
• Dispatches from the Universe: The Universe from One to Ten
• Staff Highlight: Dave & Lucky
• In Memoriam
• Looking Back: Stars Aligned for the Lowell Observatory Foundation

Summer 2020, Issue 119

• Lowell Observatory Solar Telescope Sees First Light
• Michael West Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
• Lowell Wins Viola Awards
• Meteorites Collected from AZ Fall
• Strange, Dismembered Star Cluster at Galaxy’s Edge
• Dispatches from the Universe: A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe
• Staff Highlight: Heidi Larson
• SBA Visits Flagstaff Businesses
• New Planetary Photos from Old Negatives
• The Legacy of E.C. Slipher, Phased Reopening Plan

Spring 2020, Issue 118

• New Agreement with Discovery, Inc.
• Dimming of Betelgeuse Likely Due to Dust
• Employee and Team of the Year
• LDT Partner Perspective
• Temporary Closure
• Dispatches from the Universe: Shake the Sky
• Staff Highlight: Jim Cole
• New Online Programming
• Gift from the Robinsons
• Record Fundraising

Winter 2019, Issue 117

• Superfast Star Found Leaving the Milky Way
• 2I/Borisov, an Interstellar Comet
• Lights, Cameras…Norway
• Introducing Kyler Kuehn
• Dispatches from the Universe: The Colors of the Night
• Giovale Open Deck Observatory Pictures
• Charles Simonyi Headlines Lowell42
• Giovale Open Deck Observatory Bathroom Exhibits
• Staff Highlight: Mary DeMuth

Fall 2019, Issue 116

• Lowell Receives $14.5 Million for New Education Center
• Lowell Celebrates 125th Anniversary
• Giovale Open Deck Observatory Now Open
• Introducing Ultima Thule
• Changes to Navajo-Hopi Program
• Dispatches from the Universe: Laika’s Ashes
• Research that Breeds Discovery
• Meet Danielle Adams
• The Red Shirts of Lowell
• What Our Guests are Saying

Spring 2019, Issue 115

• Breaking Ground for the GODO
• GODO Update
• Star Flung into Galactic Halo by Massive Black Hole
• Dispatches from the Universe: Heaven, Hell, and every In Between
• New Names on the Moon
• 2018 DON Tour
• Tombaugh’s Forgotten Legacy (Part 2)
• Meet Ken and Audrey Spencer
• Farewell Bill, Mica, and Peter
• Ayers Sciences Fund Supports 5th-Graders
• Gift Shop Modifications

Fall 2018, Issue 114

• Chasing Shadows in Senegal
• C-Span Cities Tour Visits Flagstaff
• GODO Progress
• CubeSat to Explore Nearby Stars
• Dispatches from the Youniverse
• Lawrence Lowell (Pluto Discovery) Telescope
• The Forgotten Legacy of Clyde Tombaugh
• Michael & Karen Kitt
• Flagstaff’s Lunar Legacy
• Meet Joe Wagner
• Research Observing on Mars Hill

Spring 2018, Issue 113

• Meet Astronomer Jennifer Hanley
• Meet Astronomer Michael Mommert
• All Systems GODO!
• GODO Funding Opportunities
• Dispatches from the Universe: The Man Who Saved the Universe
• Dave Eicher Joins Advisory Board
• Employee and Team of the Year
• Lowell Putnam Receives Honorary Degree
• Highlights of AAS
• Dave Schleicher Receives NASA Grant
• Annual Fund Supports Collections

Winter 2017, Issue 112

• DOUBLE ISSUE: Gerard van Belle Heads NPOI
• Giovale Open Deck Observatory
• Junior Astronomer Program
• Expanding LOCKs
• Stephen Riggs Joins Lowell
• The Next Chapter
• The Lowells’ Love of Plants
• Dispatches from the Universe: Life, the Universe, and the Peter Principle
• Pluto Telescope and Dome Renovation Photos
• PLS Members the Sutherlands
• Spinning Comet
• IAU Names Pluto Features
• Observing an Occultation of Triton, Mars and Beyond

Fall 2017, Issue 111

ECLIPSE ISSUE: A Moving Experience

• Eclipse at Lowell
• Madras Event Brings Out Media
• Two Minutes We’ll Never Forget
• Eclipse Event Images
• All Ages Capitalize in Madras
• Ferrises Return for Madras Event
• Flagstaff Educators in Madras
• Let’s Do it Again!
• Thank You to Sponsors

Spring 2017, Issue 110

• Understanding the Sun and its Solar Siblings
• DCT and Dark Skies at AAS
• Comet History at Lowell Pt. 2
• Clyde Tombaugh’s Offer Letter
• Dispatches from the Universe: Serendipity
• Remembering Peter Collins
• Pluto Telescope Renovation
• Vera Rubin: 1928-2016
• MIT Camp Returns to Lowell
• Marley Foundation

Winter 2016, Issue 109

• NIHTS Coming Online
• Welcome George Jacoby (Deputy Director for Technology)
• Marcus Cometary Research Fund
• Comet History at Lowell Pt. 1
• Own Alan’s Car
• Flagstaff Astronomy Symposium
• Dispatches from the Universe: Things Aren’t Always As They Appear
• Event Celebrates Percival Lowell
• Melding Research and Education
• Letter to Dr. von Braun
• From the LMI Gallery
• Results of Donor Survey

Fall 2016, Issue 108

• The CI Tau b Young Giant Planet: A First of its Kind Detection
• Guest Column –
• Pluto: One Year Later
• Elizabeth Roemer
• Dispatches from the Universe: A Brief History of the Youniverse
• Remarkable Imaging of LMI
• Remembering Frank Paschal
• Mallincam Gives Visitors Live Astronomy Video
• Carl Lampland Collection Part 2
• Todd Gonzales Joins Development Team
• Guest Comments
• Volunteers Rediscover the Red-Shift

Summer 2016, Issue 107

• Dark Skies
• PLS Members Bill and Susan Ahearn
• Breaking the Speed Limit: The Hunt for Fast-Spinning Asteroids
• The Discovery of the Kuiper Belt
• Dispatches from the Universe: While Flagstaff Slept
• Slipher Building Centennial
• Changes to Public Program
• Clark Telescope Ties in South Carolina
• Welcome Bruce Kosavech
• Summer Camp Registration Open

Spring 2016, Issue 106

• Four Questions with Michael West
• PLS Members Rick and Mary Ann Woods
• AAS Meeting
• The Lowell Observatory Foundation
• Love and Litter
• Where’s the Lute?
• Sharing Space with Guests
• Flagstaff Astro Symposium
• Team and Employee of the Year
• Being a Post-Doc at Lowell

Fall 2015, Issue 105 – Extended Issue

• New Horizon’s Unveils Pluto’s Secrets
• Bound for Chile!
• Volunteer Highlight
• Pluto Circle Members Celebrate Flyby
• Education On Board SOFIA
• Talking Historic Telescopes
• Lowell Scientists Observe Pluto Occultation
• Pluto at 85 Exhibit
• Lowell Hosts Pluto Palooza
• Pluto Through the Years Picture Timeline
• Lowell Well Represented at Pluto Flyby Headquarters
• Image of America Book Coming in 2016
• First Day Jitters
• Latest DCT Image
• Volunteers Play Critical Role in Archives
• Lowell Awarded Art and Science Fund Grant
• LOCKs Donors
• Clark Telescope Renovation Completed
• The Far End of the Journey Clark Book

Summer 2015, Issue 104

• Lowell Welcomes Yale as DCT Partner
• Navajo-Hopi Program
• Announcing the Lowell Observatory Foundation
• Welcome New DDS Michael West
• REU Student Ryan Muzzio Returns for Third Summer
• Monday Nights at Lowell
• Welcome New DDA Anne LaBruzzo
• Gala Wrap Up
• Welcome to the DON
• Lowell Wins Museum Award

Spring 2015, Issue 103

• Pluto: The Next Chapter
• Sharing Pluto with the Public
• Discovery Channel Commercial
• Rockows Sponsor Pluto at 85
• Pluto and Beyond Gala
• Exploring the Carl Lampand Files

Winter 2015, Issue 102

• Bill Putnam Death
• Wolf-Rayet Stars
• Video Observing with Public
• Science on a Sphere
• #YearofPluto events, the Spahns

Fall 2014, Issue 101

• Cool Stars Conference
• Trustee’s & Director’s Updates
• Youth Camps, Gene Hill
• Tour Leads to LARI Participation
• Mayda Arias
• In Memoriam

Summer 2014, Issue 100

• Lisa Prato
• Director’s Update
• Hunter & Covey Awards
• LARI
• Volunteers of the Year
• Mark Kelly Event
• Lowell’s Last Observing Session
• Nat White Award
• Summer Camps
• In Memoriam

Bill Putnam, Issue 99

• Putnam Legacy
• Trustee’s Update
• Director’s Update
• My Boss Bill Putnam
• Kitty Putnam
• Putnam Family
• Bill Putnam Contributions

Fall 2013, Issue 98

• Nick Moskovitz
• Director’s Update
• Joe Sims
• Comet ISON
• DCT Early Science
• Collections Center Groundbreaking
• Evolving Universe Exhibit
• Lowell Webcam

Spring 2013, Issue 97

• Molecules in Exoplanet Atmosphere
• Director’s Update
• Suited for Space Exhibit
• Restore the Clark
• NEOs
• LARI
• Trustee Wins Viola Award

Winter 2013, Issue 96

• Exoplanet Search
• Director’s Update
• Cool Stars 18
• LMI Sees First Light
• End-of-Year Appeal
• Archiving the Baum Collection
• Chandler Solar System Walk
• In Memoriam

Fall 2012, Issue 95

• First Light Gala
• Director’s Update
• Library/Collections Center
• V. M. Slipher’s Legacy
• Annular Eclipse
• Transit of Venus
• Upcoming Events

Spring 2012, Issue 94

• Comet Lovejoy
• Director’s Update
• A Night with the Clark
• Uncle Percy’s Adventures in Space
• Planned Giving
• Astronomy Field Trips
• Upcoming Events

Winter 2012, Issue 93

• Eyes on the Mountain
• Director’s Letter
• Moon Mapping at Lowell
• DCT Agreements
• Profile Stories
• TIME World’s 100 Most Important Places

Fall 2011, Issue 92

• From Discovering to Describing
• Director’s Letter
• Three New Astronomers
• Dr. Ted Bowell Retires
• John Radway
• Departures and Arrivals
• In Memoriam

Summer 2011, Issue 91

• Exploring Strange New Worlds
• Director’s Update
• Dedicating the G-M Lodge
• Planned Giving Update
• New Board Member
• All in the Family
• Lord of the Stars