Telescopes
Keck Observatory, Mauna Kea, HI
Very Large Array, Socorro, NM
(NRAO)
STSI Comprehensive List of Telescopes
(includes links)
Ground-Based Telescopes
W. M. Keck Observatory
-- Mauna Kea, HI
European Southern Observatory
-- La Silla, Chile
National Optical Astronomy Observatories
-- includes huge image gallery
Lick Observatory
-- Mt. Hamilton, CA
Mount Wilson Observatory
-- Mt. Wilson, CA
Palomar Observatory
-- Palomar Mtn., CA (home of the 200" Hale telescope.)
Griffith Observatory
-- Mt. Hollywood, CA
National Solar Observatory
-- Sunspot, NM
Apache Point Observatory
-- Sacramento Peak, NM
McDonald Observatory
-- Fort Davis, TX
Lowell Observatory
-- Flagstaff, AZ. (where Percival Lowell observed Mars and Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto.)
Multi-Mirror Telescope Observatory (MMT)
-- Mt. Hopkins, AZ
Lund Observatory
-- Lund, Sweden
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO)
-- Mauna Kea, HI
Arecibo Observatory
-- world's largest radio dish; in Puerto Rico
Berkeley Radio Astronomy Lab
-- participates in running the millimeter interferometer at Hat Creek, CA
Owens Valley Radio Observatory
-- Owens Valley, CA
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Very Large Array (VLA)
-- Socorro, NM (as seen in the '97
movie 'Contact.' No SETI research there, though.)
Orbiting Space Telescopes
(selected satellites)
Current JPL Space Missions
HEASARC
-- Based at Goddard Space Flight Ctr., MD; info. for many high-energy missions including Astro-E, Chandra (AXAF), Advanced Sat. for Cosmology & Astrophysics (ASCA), Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute
Infrared Space Observatory
VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP)
-- info. on HALCA satellite
Future Telescopes
DARWIN - Space Infrared Interferometer Project
Very Large Telescope Project
-- ESO is building world's largest optical array; in Chile
Kepler - A Search for Habitable Planets
(SOFIA) Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
-- telescope in a high-altitude airplane
UCLA professors involved:
Eric Becklin
Ian McLean
Mark Morris
Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP)
Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF)
includes link to tutorial on Infrared Astronomy