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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 ...
The Keck Observatory on the summit has a visitor gallery which is usually open between 10am and 4pm on weekdays, and free tours of the Subaru Telescope can be reserved on its web site, [10] but otherwise only observatory staff and visiting scientists are allowed inside observatory facilities.
In 1998, 2,033 acres (823 ha) were transferred from the observatory lease to supplement the Mauna Kea Ice Age Reserve. The 1982 plan was replaced in 2000 by an extension designed to serve until 2020: it instituted an Office of Mauna Kea Management, [ 13 ] designated 525 acres (212 ha) for astronomy, and shifted the remaining 10,763 acres (4,356 ...
The W.M. Keck Science Department of Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College, and Scripps College. The W.M. Keck Center for Interdisciplinary Bioscience Training at Rice University in Houston, Texas (training arm of the Gulf Coast Consortia (GCC)) [5] Support for building of the Keck Observatory at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington
Mauna Kea (/ ˌ m ɔː n ə ˈ k eɪ ə, ˌ m aʊ n ə-/, [6] Hawaiian: [ˈmɐwnə ˈkɛjə]; abbreviation for Mauna a Wākea) [7] is a dormant shield volcano on the island of Hawaiʻi. [8] Its peak is 4,207.3 m (13,803 ft) above sea level, making it the highest point in Hawaii and the island with the second highest high point, behind New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island with ...
Observatory Image Aperture Spectrum Altitude First Light 1 United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Joint Astronomy Centre: 380 cm (150 in) Infrared 4,205 m (13,796 ft) 1979 2 ESO 3.6 m Telescope ESO La Silla Obs. 357 cm (141 in) Visible Infrared 2,400 m (7,874 ft) 1977 3 NASA Infrared Telescope Facility Mauna Kea Observatory 300 cm (118 in) Infrared
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The Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) is a NASA-funded collaboration between the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) and the W. M. Keck Observatory (WMKO). The KOA archive includes data from two of the instruments on the Keck telescopes, the High Resolution Echelle Spectrograph (HIRES) and the Near InfraRed echelle SPECtrograph (NIRSPEC).