Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
(CFHT)
(3.6 meter optical/infrared telescope in Hawaii)
The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) is an
optical/infrared reflector telescope
near summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii,
at around 4100 m elevation operated by
the National Research Council of Canada,
the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of France
and the University of Hawaii.
It began operation in 1979.
Instruments include:
Previously listed instruments:
The term NGCFHT (for "next generation CFHT") and similar terms
have been used for an eventual successor to the CFHT at exactly
the same location, a modern telescope with more research value.
The last two decades have produced a number of concepts, including
some for a 10 m class instrument, one recent concept termed the
Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE). Such a replacement,
which optimistically would occur during the 2020s, would require
an outage of multiple years.
(telescope,reflector,visible light,infrared,Hawaii,ground)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada-France-Hawaii_Telescope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunakea_Spectroscopic_Explorer
http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018SPIE10704E..1EB/abstract
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04907
https://mse.cfht.hawaii.edu/
Referenced by pages:
Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA)
AEGIS
Canada-France High-z Quasar Survey (CFHQS)
CFBDS
CFHTLS
Dynamical Analysis of Nearby Clusters (DANCe)
equatorial mount
Gemini Observatory
imaging Fourier transform spectroscopy (IFTS)
Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO)
monolithic mirror
Multi-Epoch Nearby Cluster Survey (MENeaCS)
Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS)
PAndAS
SPIRou
Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS)
Zeeman-Doppler imaging (ZDI)
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