(1987-2013), and current trustee W. Lowell Putnam. The trustee appoints an Executive Director to oversee operations of the observatory, and consults with an advisory board. The current Director is Dr. Amanda Bosh.

Multiple astronauts attended the Lowell Observatory in 1963 while the Moon was being mapped for the Apollo Program, and many observed through the Clark Telescope.

History

Founding in 1894

In 1877 the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli

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