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Telescopes Large and Small Team Up to Study Triple Asteroid
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Telescopes Large and Small Team Up to Study Triple Asteroid

October 7, 2013

Kamuela, HI -- Combining observations from the world’s largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of scientists discovered that the large main-belt asteroid (87)... Read more »

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Exploring New Worlds

April 5, 2010

UC Berkeley planet hunter Geoff Marcy watches the sun set from the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea. Credit: WMKO. Geoff Marcy, an astronomer at UC Berkeley, began searching for worlds beyond our Solar... Read more »

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MOSFIRE and ESI* are the instruments tonight. Observers are from CIT and CIT. Sun set 06:40:00pm rise 06:25:00am
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Tonight's schedule is MOSFIRE on Keck 1 and NIRSPEC* on Keck 2 for our lucky observers from CIT and NASA. Sun set 06:39:00pm rise 06:26:00am
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The sky is ready for MOSFIRE and ESI*. Our observers from CIT and CIT-Y are also ready. Sun set 06:39:00pm rise 06:27:00am
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Keck 1 MOSFIRE is scheduled with CIT observers. Keck 2 ESI* is scheduled for Yale observers. Sun set 06:39:00pm rise 06:28:00am
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