	Mauna Kea
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Mauna Kea Telescopes


UH 0.6m	UH 0.6-m educational telescope	0.6m	University of Hawaii at Hilo	1968
UH 2.2m	UH 2.2-m telescope	2.2m	UH Institute for Astronomy	1970
IRTF	NASA Infrared Telescope Facility	3.0m	NASA	1979
CFHT	Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope	3.6m	Canada/France/UH	1979
UKIRT	United Kingdom Infrared Telescope	3.8m	United Kingdom	1979
Keck I	W. M. Keck Observatory	10m	Caltech/University of California	1992
Keck II	W. M. Keck Observatory	10m	Caltech/University of California	1996
Subaru	Subaru Telescope	8.3m	Japan	1999
Gemini	Gemini Northern Telescope	8.1m	USA/UK/ Canada/Argentina/ Australia/Brazil/Chile	1999

CSO	Caltech Submillimeter Observatory	10.4m	Caltech/NSF	1987
JCMT	James Clerk Maxwell Telescope	15m	UK/Canada/Netherlands	1987
SMA	Submillimeter Array	8x6m	Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory/Taiwan	2002

Very Long Baseline Array

25m

NRAO/AUI/NSF

1992

This chart shows all the mirrors of the optical and infrared telescopes on Mauna Kea to the same scale (click to enlarge.

The Hubble Space Telescope's mirror is similar in size to that of the UH 2.2 meter telescope -- the second smallest telescope on the mountain.