Harqua Hala Letters: The Story of Arizona's Forgotten Smithsonian Observatory

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May 1996

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Technical Report, PB97-10923; BLM/AZ/PT-96/007; CULTURAL RESOURCE SER-9 Arizona State Office

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Climate, Astronomical Observatories, Solar Energy, Radiant Flux Density, Arizona

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This book describes the lives of about a dozen people associated with making observations of the sun's radiant energy from the top of an isolated mountain peak in the Southern Arizona Desert. The men lived and worked at a small observatory built and operated by the Smithsonian Institution on the top of Harquahala Peak in the early 1920s. The purpose of the observatory was to determine whether the amount of solar heat reaching the earth affected, and could be used to predict, climate events. The story is told through the personal letters written by the men who lived at the observatory during its 5-year span of operation.

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