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The Mount Laguna Observatory or MLO is an astronomical observatory operated by the Astronomy Department of San Diego State University (SDSU). It is located approximately forty five miles east of downtown San Diego on the eastern edge of the Cleveland National Forest, and is named after the Laguna Mountains.
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| Organization | San Diego State University |
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| Location | San Diego, California |
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| Altitude | 1859 meters (6100 feet) |
| Webpage | MLO at SDSU |
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| Unnamed telescope | 16-inch reflector |
| Buller telescope | 21-inch reflector |
| Smith telescope | 24-inch reflector |
| Unnamed telescope | 40-inch reflector |
| Large Robotic telescope (proposed) | 100-inch reflector |
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The MLO was dedicated in June 19th, 1968, seven years after SDSU\'s Department of Astronomy became an independent academic department of SDSU\'s College of Sciences. The dedication took place during the 1968 summer meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
The observatory has four telescopes which are used by the students and faculty of both SDSU and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Data is transferred back from the MLO via the High Performance Research and Education Network (HPWREN).
A collaboration between the University of Kansas, Composite Mirror Applications out of Tucson, AZ, and Dartmouth College is currently looking to replace the 16-inch telescope with another 40 inch telescope using carbon composite technology in a project known as ULTRA.
Also a 100-inch Large Robotic Telescope is being planned.
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