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  2. Mauna Kea Observatories - Wikipedia

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    The Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) are a group of independent astronomical research facilities and large telescope observatories that are located at the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, United States. The facilities are located in a 525-acre (212 ha) special land use zone known as the "Astronomy Precinct", which is located ...

  3. W. M. Keck Observatory - Wikipedia

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    The W. M. Keck Observatory is an astronomical observatory with two telescopes at an elevation of 4,145 meters (13,600 ft) near the summit of Mauna Kea in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Both telescopes have 10 m (33 ft) aperture primary mirrors, and, when completed in 1993 (Keck I) and 1996 (Keck II), they were the largest optical reflecting ...

  4. Onizuka Center for International Astronomy - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 19°45′41″N 155°27′22″W. Support facilities for the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, US. Dormitories at the center. A view of the Onizuka Center for International Astronomy Visitor Information Station on the ascent of Mauna Kea, taken from a Pu'u at the 9300 ft. level. The Onizuka Center for International Astronomy, also ...

  5. Subaru Telescope - Wikipedia

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    Subaru Telescope (すばる望遠鏡, Subaru Bōenkyō) is the 8.2-metre (320 in) telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii. It is named after the open star cluster known in English as the Pleiades. It had the largest monolithic primary mirror in the world from its commissioning ...

  6. Thirty Meter Telescope - Wikipedia

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    The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is a planned extremely large telescope (ELT) [5][6][7] proposed to be built on Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawai'i. The TMT would become the largest visible-light telescope on Mauna Kea. [8][9] Scientists have been considering ELTs since the mid 1980s. In 2000, astronomers considered the possibility of a ...

  7. NASA Infrared Telescope Facility - Wikipedia

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    NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (NASA IRTF) is a 3-meter (9.8 ft) telescope optimized for use in infrared astronomy and located at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii. It was first built to support the Voyager missions and is now the US national facility for infrared astronomy, providing continued support ...

  8. James Clerk Maxwell Telescope - Wikipedia

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    The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) is a submillimetre-wavelength radio telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, US. The telescope is near the summit of Mauna Kea at 13,425 feet (4,092 m). Its primary mirror is 15 metres (16.4 yards) across: it is the largest single-dish telescope that operates in submillimetre wavelengths of the ...

  9. Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer - Wikipedia

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    The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) is a collaborative project by a new and enlarged partnership [1] to revitalize the Canada-France-Hawai‘i Telescope (CFHT) observatory through replacing the existing 1970-vintage optical telescope with a modern segmented-mirror telescope and dedicated science instrumentation, while substantially re-using [2] the existing Maunakea summit building and ...

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