“Our ancestors worshipped the Sun and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the Stars for we are their children.” ~ Carl Sagan

1. HAWAI`I MAUI
MAUNA KEA MAUNA LOA HALEAKALA
Somewhere, Something incredible is waiting to be known
Carl Sagan
MAUNA KEA OBSERVATORY
Astronomy Precinct
Optical/Infrared
UH Hilo Educational Telescope University of Hawaii at Hilo 2010
UH 2.2-m telescope UH Institute for Astronomy 1970
NASA Infrared Telescope Facility NASA 1979
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Canada/France/UH 1979
UKIRTUKIRT UH Institute for Astronomy 1979
Keck I W. M. Keck Observatory Caltech/University of California 1993
Keck II W. M. Keck Observatory Caltech/University of California 1996
Subaru Telescope Japan 1999
Gemini Northern Telescope USA/UK/ Canada/Argentina/
Australia/Brazil/Chile 1999
Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) TMT International Observatory LLC (TIO)
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy
California Institute of Technology
University of California
National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan
National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences
Department of Science and Technology of India
National Research Council (Canada)

2. “TMT is currently assessing its next steps and awaiting resolution on the University of
Hawaii sublease to the TMT International Observatory.” Source: TMT https://www.tmt.org/page/about
“The Hawaii Supreme Court this week set a March 15 [2018] date for oral arguments over
the question of whether the state must hold yet another TMT contested case hearing —
this time on the project's sublease. For the TMT to move forward quickly, the Supreme
Court would have to reinstate the sublease.” [Clarifcation Supplied]
Source: Ofcials set April deadline to decide fate of the Thirty Meter Telescope By Timothy
Hurley. Honolulu Star-Advertiser. February 3, 2018, accessed February 4, 2018
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/honolulu-star-advertiser/20180203/281505046664229
Submillimeter
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory Caltech/NSF 1987
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope UK/Canada/Netherlands 1987
Submillimeter Array Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory/Taiwan 2002
Radio
Very Long Baseline Array NRAO/AUI/NSF 1992
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MAUNA LOA SOLAR OBSERVATORY
Solar
Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR) High Altitude
Observatory (HAO) 1965
Global Oscillation Network Group Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (Hawaii)/
(GONG) A community-based program Big Bear Solar Observatory (California)/
to study solar internal structure and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (Chile)/
dynamics using helioseismology Learmonth Solar Observatory (Western Australia)/
Teide Observatory (Canary Islands)/
Udaipur Solar Observatory (India) 2000

3. Radio
Yuan-Tseh Lee Array for Microwave Academia Sinica Institute
Background Anisotropy of Astronomy and Astrophysics/
National Taiwan University/
Array for Microwave Background Australia Telescope National
Anisotropy (AmiBA) Facility. Researchers from:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics/National Radio
Astronomy Observatory/
University of Hawaii (IfA)/
University of Bristol/Nottingham
Trent University/Canadian Institute
for Theoretical Astrophysics/
Carnegie-Mellon University 2000
Variable Young Stellar Objects
Survey (VYSOS) University of Hawaii IfA 2008
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HALEAKALA OSERVATORY
Science City
Mees Solar Observatory National Aeronautics and Space Administration/ 1964
Goddard Flight Center/IfA
Pan-Starrs PS1 PS2 IfA Advanced Technology Research Center, Maui 1995
Advanced Electro-Optical National Aeronautics and Space Administration/
System Air Force Ofce of Scientifc Research/IfA 1997
LCO Faulkes Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope
Observatory Network (LCOGTN) 2004
TLRS-4 Laser Ranging National Aeronautics and Space Administration/
System and Zodiacal Goddard Flight Center/IfA
Light Observatory
The Daniel K. Inouye Association of Universities for Research in Projected
Solar Telescope (DKIST) Astronomy/National Science Foundation/ Completion
National Solar Observatory (NSO) 2019