Lowell Observatory comparing these measurements with a reference set of Sun-like stars. Lowell Observatory is building a major new reflecting telescope in partnership with Discovery Communications, located near Happy Jack, Arizona. This Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT), located within the Mogollon Rim Ranger District of the Coconino National Forest, is expected to be the fifth-largest telescope in the contiguous United States, and it will enable the astronomers of Lowell Observatory to enter new research areas deeper into outer space. The DCT and the research carried out there will be the focus of ongoing informative and educational television programs about astronomy, the sciences, and
John Lowell hero Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.. Likewise Dorothy [Quincy] Jackson was descended from Judge Edmund Quincy II [1681-1737/38] who was a brother of Colonel John Quincy [1689-1767] the great-grandfather of US President John Quincy Adams. Other notable children of the daughters and granddaughters of John Lowell include mathematician Julian Lowell Coolidge, and writer and biographer Ferris Lowell Greenslet. After establishing his law practice in Newburyport in 1763, Lowell served as a town Selectman in 1771–1772, 1774 and 1776. In the spring of 1774 he signed addresses complimenting royal governors Thomas Hutchinson and Thomas Gage, but made a public apology for doing