|
Anatomy Of A Telescope - Subaru Telescope Project on Mauna Kea (4654 words) |
 | Subaru Telescope has graciously allowed us a fantastic opportunity to document their facilities and work, as well as share some images that have been taken with their telescope. |
| Subaru Telescope utilizes an Azimuth drive (as opposed to an Equatorial Drive) and uses computers to compensate for rotation of the Earth and the orbits of planets. |
| Subaru, like many of the telescopes, is a part of RCUH, the Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i - who helps the various nations and groups involved in observatories at the summit to coordinate, hire personnel and generally maintain and plan the summit facilities and grounds. |
| SPACE.com -- Watching the Birth of a Baby Star (884 words) |
| The Hubble Space Telescope previously captured images of the object in the visible wavelengths, but the Subaru gazer is the first to show the protostar's features in the infrared. |
| Perched at the summit of the 14,000-foot Mauna Kea peak on the big island of Hawaii, the Subaru Telescope is operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. |
| The Subaru telescope has a complicated adaptive optics system that will compensate for much of the distortion that Earth's turbulent atmosphere creates in an image, but that system is not installed yet, according to the telescope's director, Noiro Kaifu. |
Feeds |
Contact