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Originally Posted by sjastro
Very interesting information you have uncovered Craig.
Regards
Steven
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The bit that's still got me is the
IRTF ground based facility. From Wiki:
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The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (NASA IRTF) is a 3-meter (9.8 ft) telescope optimized for use in infrared astronomy and located at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii.
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The IRTF hosts 4 facility instruments. SpeX is a 0.8 to 5.4 micrometre low to moderate resolution (R=100 to R=2000) cross dispersed spectrograph with a parallel infrared guider.
CSHELL is a high resolution (R=30,000) single order 1 to 5.5 micrometre spectrograph.
MIRSI is a 4.9 to 25 micrometre thermal infrared imaging camera with grism spectrographic capability.
NSFCam2 is a 1 to 5.5 micrometre imaging camera with a wide range of filters suited to planetary science and a continuously variable filter (CVF). IRTF also hosts a number of visitor instruments, usually thermal infrared spectrographs.
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All done from Mauna Kea !!
They also use fairly extensive adaptive optics there as well.
Haven't looked at ESO's facilities yet.
Cheers