6 Sunday, December 24, 2017 Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Mirror size: 3.6 meters Wavelength: optical, near infrared First light: 1979 Employees: 47 Headquarters: Waimea Operated by: The National Research Council of Canada, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of France and University of Hawaii. Keck Observatory Mirror size: Keck I (10 meters) Keck II (10 meters) Wavelength: Keck I – optical, near infrared, Keck II – optical, near infrared First light: Keck I, 1993; Keck II, 1996 Employees: 126 Headquarters: Waimea Operated by: Caltech/University of California Subaru Telescope Mirror size: 8.3 meters Wavelength: optical, near infrared First light: 1999 Employees: 103 Headquarters: Hilo Operated by: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Submillimeter Array Mirror size: Eight 6-meter dishes Wavelength: submillimeter First light: 2002 Employees: 24 Headquarters: Hilo Operated by: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Academia Sinica Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Mirror size: 15 meters Wavelength: submillimeter First light: 1987 Employees: 35 Headquarters: Hilo Operated by: East Asian Observatory (Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan). The United Kingdom and Canada are JCMT operational partners. University of Hawaii Mirror size: 2.2 meters Wavelength: optical, near infrared First light: 1970 Employees: 6 Headquarters: Honolulu Operated by: University of Hawaii Hawaii Tribune-Herald United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Mirror size: 3.8 meters Wavelength: optical, near infrared First light: 1979 Employees: 3 Headquarters: Hilo Operated by: East Asian Observatory Very Long Baseline Array Mirror size: 25 meters Wavelength: radio First light: 1992 Employees: 40 Headquarters: Socorro, New Mexico Operated by: Long Baseline Observatory NASA Infrared Telescope Facility Mirror size: 3 meters Wavelength: optical, near infrared First light: 1979 Employees: 25 Headquarters: Hilo Operated by: Planetary Science Division for NASA
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