Subaru Telescope
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Key facts
- Location s
- United States
- Observatory code
- T09
- Altitude
- 4,139 m (13,579 ft)
- Wavelength
- Optical/Infrared
- Built
- Completed 1998
- Diameter
- 8.3 m (8.2 m usable)
- Secondary diameter
- 1330/1400/1265 mm
- Angular resolution
- 0.23″
- Collecting area
- 53 m (570 sq ft)
- Focal length
- f/1.83 (15.000 m)
- Mounting
- Altitude/Azimuth
- Website
- www .naoj .org /,%20https: //subarutelescope .org //jp /
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Nasmyth telescope
- Named after
- Pleiades
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Hawaii
- Area
- 53
- Elevation
- 4139
- Diameter
- 8.2
- Official website
- subarutelescope.org//jp
- Image
- MaunaKea Subaru.jpg
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- Commons category
- Subaru Telescope
- focal length
- 15
- angular resolution
- 0.23
- inception
- 1997-00-00
- located in/on physical feature
- Mauna Kea
- social media followers
- 75886
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Encyclopedic overview
Subaru Telescope (すばる望遠鏡, Subaru Bōenkyō) is the 8.2-metre (320 in) telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii. It is named after the open star cluster known in English as the Pleiades. It had the largest monolithic primary mirror in the world from its commissioning until the Large Binocular Telescope opened in 2005.
Overview
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Subaru Telescope” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.