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The Keck I telescope began science observations in May 1993, while first light for Keck II occurred on April 27, 1996. The Keck II telescope showing the segmented primary mirror. The key advance that allowed the construction of the Keck telescopes was the use of active optics to operate smaller mirror segments as a single, contiguous mirror. A ...
W. M. Keck Observatory at dawn, Mauna Kea, Hawaii The Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii projects a laser beam into the night sky to form an artificial guide star for adaptive optics. The galactic plane of the Milky Way is visible in the sky to the right of the image.
W. M. Keck Foundation, an American charitable foundation W. M. Keck Observatory at the Mauna Kea in Hawaii; Keck School of Medicine of USC at the University of Southern California; Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences in Claremont, California; Keck Geology Consortium, a collaboration of colleges promoting undergraduate earth science ...
The Keck Institute for Space Studies is located in the Keck Center, which includes two buildings: the renovated Tolman/Bacher House and a new structure erected next door. The center, designed by Lehrer Architects, was dedicated on September 15, 2014, to honor the long-term support of Caltech by the W. M. Keck Foundation and its founder William ...
The TKS aims to measure the mass for about 100 exoplanets [2] and has been awarded some of the largest time allocations in the histories of Keck I and APF. [1] The program has four main science themes: [2] the bulk compositions of small planets; dynamical temperatures and system architectures; a larger, more refined sample for future ...
In 1985, Keck gave $70 million to the California Institute of Technology to fund the design and construction of the Keck I Telescope on the summit of Hawaii's dormant Mauna Kea volcano. Under Howard Keck, the Foundation grew from $250 million to more than $1.2 billion and as one of the leading grant-giving organizations in the United States has ...
Most large telescopes since the Hale use this design—the Hubble and Keck telescopes are Ritchey–Chrétien, for example. LSST will use a three-mirror anastigmat to cancel astigmatism by employing three non-spherical mirrors. The result is sharp images over a wide field of view, but at the expense of some light-gathering power due to the ...
The Keck Hospital of USC, formerly USC University Hospital, is a private 401–licensed bed teaching hospital of the University of Southern California (USC). The hospital is part of the USC Keck School of Medicine, it is located on the USC Health Sciences Campus, which is adjacent to the Los Angeles General Medical Center, east of Downtown Los Angeles.