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Location: | Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA |
| Property: | National Research Council Canada, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Univerrsity o | |
| Operated by: | CFHT Corporation | |
| Operative since: | 1979 |
| Phone: | 1 (808) 885-7944 | Fax: | 1 (808) 885-7288 |
| Email: | director@cfht.hawaii.edu | Web Page: | http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu |
| Full address: | Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope Corporation 65-1238 Mamaloha Hwy
Kamuela, Hawaii HI 96743. USA |
| Description: | It is a 3.6-meter optical Ritchey Chretien telescope with an equatorial mount and prime and Cassegrain focus instruments.
CFHT is located at 4200m on the summit of Mauna Kea, one of the very best astronomical sites in the world. Its main instrumentation is made of - MegaPrime, a prime focus equipped with a 340 MegaPixels CCD mosaic (MegaCam) designed to provide a good u-band efficiency, a set of Sloan-like filters, tip/tilt guiding and autofocus, offering a 1degx1deg field with a 0.18”/pixel resolution, - WIRCam, a prime focus equipped with a wide-field IR camera with for 2kx2k Hawaii-2RG detectors offering a 20'x20' field of view with a 0.3"/pixel resolution, - ESPaDONnS, a fiber-fed Echelle spectropolarimeter convering the whole visible spectrum at R~70,000 to 80,000. CFHT is also offering an adaptive optics bonnette, Pueo, installed at the Cassegrain focus, equipped with an infrared 1kx1k camera (KIR). MegaCam, WIRCam and ESPaDOnS observations are carried out by CFHT staff in Queued Service Observing mode. Therefore, programs on these three instruments do not require any travel to the observatory. Data are also pre-processed by CFHT staff. |
| Further details: | http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu |
| More information: | http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/ObsInfo/ObservingProposals/ |
| Funding sources: | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; National research Council, Canada; Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii |
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| Name: | Veillet, Christian | Role/Function: | Executive Director |
| Email: | director@cfht.hawaii.edu | Phone: | 1 808 885-7944 |
| Fax: | 1 808 885-7288 | Institution: | CFHT Corporation |
| Full Address: | Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope Corporation 65-1238 Mamaloha Hwy
Kamuela, Hawaii HI 96743. USA |
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