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Hereford Arizona Observatory
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Hereford Arizona Observatory, designated G95 by the IAU, is a small observatory in southeastern Arizona about 130 kilometers southeast of Tucson and 11 kilometers north of the Mexican border. Owned and operated by amateur astronomer Bruce L. Gary at an elevation of 1,423 meters, it has two installations: one with an 11-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope and another with a 16-inch Ritchey–Chrétien telescope, both on equatorial mounts. The observatory has contributed recent observations of unusual starlight fluctuations in Tabby's Star, also known as KIC 8462852, and in WD 1145+017.
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