Inside this dome is the famed Clark Telescope, constructed in the 1800s by a couple of bicycle repair guys from Flagstaff so that Percival Lowell could look for the “canals” on Mars and find the Martians.
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Tell me that’s not a meteor in the foreground? If it is, would have been ironic had it hit the telescope. Very nice composition.
Ha ha, no, not a meteor. I believe it’s a bit of lava rock from the area’s extinct volcano(es). There is a lot of lava rock up there.