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Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

(CFHT, CFH telescope)
(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-meter 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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