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Mauna Kea Telescopes :

 

Telescopes found at the summit of Mauna Kea are funded by government agencies of various nations. The University of Hawai'i itself directly administers two telescopes. In total there are 12 telescopes at or around the summit of Mauna Kea. It will also be the site of the Thirty Meter Telescope and is a proposed site for Pan-STARRS.

 

- The Subaru Telescope, the Keck I and II Telescopes, and the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility

- Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO): Caltech

- Canada France Hawai'i Telescope (CFHT): Canada, France, University of Hawai'i

- Gemini North Telescope: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Chile, Australia, Argentina, Brazil

- Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF): NASA

- James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT): United Kingdom, Canada, Netherlands

- Subaru Telescope: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

- Sub-Millimeter Array (SMA): Taiwan, United States

- United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT): United Kingdom

- University of Hawai'i 88-inch (2.2 m) telescope (UH88): University of Hawai'i

- University of Hawai'i 24-inch (610 mm) telescope (UH24): University of Hawaii at Hilo

- One receiver of the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA): United States

- W. M. Keck Observatory: California Association for Research in Astronomy

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Kea_Observatory

 

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Taken on September 7, 2010