CELT: the California Extremely Large Telescope A collaboration of the University of California and the California Institute of Technology to build a 30-m optical/IR telescope.
CHARA The Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy.
ING La Palma Information Details of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, including the William Herschel Telescope (WHT), Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) and Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope (JKT), on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands (
UK mirror).
IRAM Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimetrique, is an international (Frence, Germany & Spain) institute for research in millimetre astronomy.
IRTF The InfraRed Telescope Facility is a 3-metre telescope optimized for IR observations operated for NASA by the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy.
JCMT: the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope The 15m-diameter JCMT is the largest facility in the world designed specifically to operate in the sub-mm part of the spectrum, located on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Jodrell Bank Jodrell Bank is the home of MERLIN and the Lovell Telescope.
Keck Currently the largest-aperture optical telescopes in the world, the twin Keck telescopes, operated by the University of California, are located on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Las Campanas The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
La Silla Home of ESO's first Chilean observatory.
Lick The world's first permanently occupied mountaintop observatory
MAXIMA The Millimeter Anisotropy eXperiment IMaging Array
MERLIN MERLIN, operated at Jodrell Bank, is the Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network, an array of Radio Telescopes distributed across Great Britain (see also
VLBI).
MMT Orginally the 'Multi-Mirror Telescope', now replaced with a 6.5-m monolith
OPTICON 22 European telescopes forming part of the Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives funded by the teh European Commission's FP6
OVRO Owens Valley Radio Observatory
OGLE The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
OWL According to taste, the OverWhelmingly Large telescope project, or the Observatory at World Level. A European project to develop a 100-m-scale optical/IR telescope.
Paranal Home of the Very Large Telescope, and ESO's second Chilean observatory
SOFIA A joint NASA-DLR observatory which will be mounted in a modified Boeing 747-SP to observe at infrared wavelengths above the bulk of the Earth's atmosphere (SOFIA stands for Stratospheric Observatory for IR astronomy).
UKIRT Details of the 3.8-m United Kingdom Infrared Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
USNO The US Naval Observatory — specializing in time keeping and navigation
VISTA The "Visible and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy"
Yerkes Home of the world's largest refracting telescope.
