IRTF
(Infrared Telescope Facility, NASA IRTF, NASA Infrared Telescope Facility)
(Mauna Kea 3-meter infrared telescope)
IRTF (Infrared Telescope Facility,
NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, NASA IRTF)
is a 3-meter infrared telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii
operated by the University of Hawaii for NASA.
It went into service in 1979.
Instruments:
Retired:
- CSHELL - high resolution spectrograph.
- NSFCam2 - 1-5 μm camera.
Planned:
(telescope,reflector,infrared,NASA,ground,Hawaii)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Infrared_Telescope_Facility
http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1981BAAS...13..173./abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021BAAS...53d.249R/abstract
Referenced by pages:
Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO)
monolithic mirror
SpeX
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