Observatories

• The Hubble Space Telescope

• The Chandra X-ray Observatory
  • PIMMS

• Keck Observatory, on the extinct volcano Mauna Kea, on the big island of Hawaii
  • Keck Observing Schedules
  • Keck weather
  • Mauna Kea weather center
  • Keck Ephemerideds
  • LRIS (Low-Resolution Imaging Spectrograph)
  • NIRSPEC
  • DEIMOS
  • ESI (Echelle Spectrograph and Imager)
  • NIRC (Near-Infrared Camera)
  • Lori Lubin's notes on using LRIS
  • Roy Gal's notes on using LRIS

• Gemini Observatory
  • GMOS (Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph)

• Palomar Observatory, on Palomar Mountain (NE of San Diego)
  • 200-inch (5.08 m) Hale Telescope
    • Double Spectrograph
    • COSMIC (Carnegie Observatories Spectrograph and Multiobject Imaging Camera)
  • 60-inch (1.52 m) Mayer Telescope
    • Direct CCD imaging
    • Long Slit Spectroscopy

• The Very Large Array (VLA), an array of 27 radio telescopes on the Plains of St. Augustine, east of Socorro, New Mexico.
• The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), with 10 radio telescopes across the US, from St. Croix in the Virgin Islands, to Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii.
• The Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) in the Owens Valley (between the Sierra Nevada and the White Mountains)
• MERLIN: The Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network, an array six radio telescopes across the UK.