COMICS is a mid-infrared camera and spectrograph, which can detect, for example, warm dust that emits strong radiation in space and that cannot be seen in optical wavelengths. The thin, dry air of ...
Suprime-Cam is an 80 megapixel, optical camera mounted at the Subaru Telescope's prime focus. Among large telescopes (6-10 m), it has the extaordinary capability not only of efficiently imaging a wide ...
Latitude: +19° 49' 32'' N (NAD83) Longitude: 155° 28' 34'' W (NAD83) Altitude: 4139 m (Elevation axis is at 4163 m) Mounting: altitude-azimuth (Alt-Az) ...
The observatory of the Subaru Telescope was officially established in April 1997, following the completion of its base facility building in Hilo, Hawaii. "Subaru Telescope" can refer to the telescope ...
InfraRed Doppler (IRD), which experienced the first light in 2018, is an infrared instrument used in the search for exoplanets (extrasolar planets). IRD is specialized for finding exoplanets with the ...