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	Keck telescopes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mauna Kea Observatory, an institute of the University of Hawai'i, is considered one of the most important land-based observatories in the world for its isolated, unobstructed views of space without interference from man-made light sources.
		The W.M. Keck telescopes are the two largest optical/near-infrared telescopes of the Mauna Kea Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawai'i.
		The Keck telescopes have, essentially, 10 m mirrors; however, rather than having one mirror each telescope has 36 smaller hexagonal mirrors working together.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Keck_telescopes (214 words)

	Keck telescopes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The W.M. Keck telescopes are the two largest telescopes of the Mauna Kea Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawai'i.
		The Keck telescopes have, essentially, 10m mirrors; however, rather than having one mirror each telescope has 36 smaller hexagonal mirrors working together.
		In addition, Keck I and II can work together, via interferometry ; this gives them the effective power of an 85m mirror.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Keck_telescopes (217 words)

	Keck Pictures of Uranus
		Observations of Uranus conducted at the W. Keck Observatory in Hawaii are surprising astronomers with the level of detail they can see from the ground.
		Later observations conducted by the team at University of Wisconsin-Madison, also with the Keck II AO system, were formed into a composite image in which the highest clouds appear white, the middle level clouds appear bright green, and the lower clouds appear darker blue (Figure 2).
		The W. Keck Observatory is operated by the California Association for Research in Astronomy (CARA), a non-profit 501 (c) (3) corporation whose board of directors includes representatives from the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
	alamoana.keck.hawaii.edu /news/science/uranus (1217 words)

	Caltech Astronomy : Overview of Observatories
		Keck Observatory is perched atop the dormant volcano, Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawaii.
		Keck is a joint effort of Caltech and the University of California, consisting of twin 10-meter telescopes, Keck I and Keck II.
		The Caltech Submillimeter Observatory is a 10-meter dish atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
	www.astro.caltech.edu /observatories (375 words)

	Planet Quest: Missions - Keck Interferometer
		The Keck Interferometer is a NASA project that combines light from the world's largest optical telescopes to create a new type of telescope with unprecedented power.
		Keck Interferometer team members transport part of the starlight nuller instrument in preparation for its installation inside the observatory.
		The W.M. Keck Observatory is funded by Caltech, the University of California, and NASA, and is managed by the California Association for Research in Astronomy, Kamuela, Hawaii.
	planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov /Keck/keck_starsDisappear.cfm (697 words)

	Keck, Subaru and NASA Infrared Observatories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Subaru Observatory -- The Subaru Telescope is operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ).
		Keck I and II Observatories -- The W.M. Keck Foundation observatories are operated by the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
		The Keck I telescope began science observations in May, 1993 and Keck II began in October, 1996.
	www.homestead.com /mstecker/astksi.html (408 words)

	Keck Telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Keck 2 Telescope The Keck 2 telescope of the W.M. Keck Observatory was the second 10-meter telescope to be built on Mauna Kea.
		Phasing The Keck Telescope Gary Chanan The 10 meter, 36 segment Keck mirror The Keck Telescope in Hawaii, a joint project of Caltech and the University of California, is - at ten meters in diameter...
		Definition of Keck telescope The Mauna Kea Observatory, an institute of the University of Hawai'i...
	www.telescope-central.com /KeckTelescope (1057 words)

	The Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP): Computation of the Cost of a Night of Keck Telescope Observing
		The cost of one night of observing with one of the Keck 10-meter telescopes is derived from two numbers; total annual cost of the Keck facility divided by the number of nights the telescopes are used for observations by the Keck Observatory partners.
		The earliest that the Keck Observatory can provide observing nights to the TSIP is in calendar year 2003, so the computation of cost per night is computed for FY03 (the Keck fiscal year matches the federal fiscal year).
		The total development cost for the Keck telescopes was $183.1 million, which is a combination of two phases: Phase I ($101.4 million) and Phase II ($81.7 million).
	www.noao.edu /system/tsip/keck_cost.html (422 words)

	ITT Industries - Welcome to Space Systems Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The twin Keck telescopes atop Hawaii's 13,800 ft. Mauna Kea volcano consist of a 10m-diameter visible light telescope (Keck I), and a 10 m diameter infrared telescope (Keck II).
		Later, as Keck II mirror segments arrived from ITT's ion figuring facility, they were installed in the Keck I primary mirror, replacing those segments that had not already been ion-figured.
		The result for the Keck Observatory is clear, deep views of the sky from the Earth's finest telescopes.
	www.ssd.itt.com /heritage/keck.shtml (615 words)

	Planet Quest: Missions - Keck Interferometer
		From a remote outpost on the summit of Hawaii's dormant Mauna Kea volcano, astronomers at the W.M. Keck Observatory probe the deepest regions of the universe with unprecedented power and precision.
		Made possible through grants totaling nearly $200 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation and NASA, the observatory is operated by CARA for the California Institute of Technology, and the University of California, with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which joined the partnership in October, 1996.
		The Keck I telescope began science observations in May, 1993; Keck II began operation in October, 1996.
	planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov /Keck/keck_about.cfm (341 words)

	ADASS 2002 Conference Proceedings
		Remote operations of Keck I from the Keck headquarters in Waimea began before the Keck II telescope opened for observations.
		When the Keck Telescopes began to be used remotely from the Keck HQ in Waimea, HI, the motivations were twofold: First, to increase service for the observers by providing a direct link between HQ observatory staff and the observers at the telescope.
		Observatory policy currently requires at least one observer to be on-site at Keck HQ, to ensure that telescope time is not lost in case of remote system failure.
	adass.org /adass/proceedings/adass02/P6-9 (1202 words)

	MIRLIN HR 4976 Page
		Keck II and its twin, Keck I, are the world's largest optical and infrared telescopes.
		The disk was discovered independently and contemporaneously at the Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile by another team of scientists, led by Ray Jayawardhana of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Cambridge, MA, and Dr. Charles Telesco of the University of Florida, Gainesville.
		The W. Keck Observatory is owned and operated by the California Association for Research in Astronomy, a joint venture between the University of California, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, and NASA.
	cougar.jpl.nasa.gov /HR4796/hr4796.html (1193 words)

	Keck Telescope Facts
		The observatory is designed to permit interferometric observations using both telescopes, a technical feat which will achieve the resolving power of a telescope equal in aperture to the distance spanned by the two Keck Telescopes, which is 85 meters.
		The Keck Telescopes are owned and operated by the California Association for Research in Astronomy, which is an association of the California Institute of Technology and the University of California.
		Your Keck Telescope kit could not have been produced without the kind permission and generous technical assistance of the Keck Observatory and the California Association for Research in Astronomy.
	scikits.com /KFacts.html (1083 words)

	An exceptionally bright eruption on Io observed with the Keck telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Berkeley,California (November 13th, 2002): Using the advanced capabilities of Adaptive Optics observations with the Keck telescope, scientists observed the largest eruption yet seen on the surface of Io, the highly volcanic satellite of Jupiter.
		The observatory is operated by the California Association for Research in Astronomy, a partnership of the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
		Keck Telescope's adaptive optics let astronomers study volcanic activity on Io from armchair on Earth (June 2001)
	astron.berkeley.edu /~fmarchis/Science/Io/PressRelease (1369 words)

	Keck Telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Keck telescope is located on Mauna Kea in Hawaii and operated by CARA (California Association for Research in Astronomy).
		Keck Image of Fragment A & C Impacts (July 17, 1994).
		Keck Images of Fragment R Impact (July 21, 1994).
	www2.jpl.nasa.gov /sl9/keck.html (173 words)

	Universe Today - Keck Uses Adaptive Optics for the First Time
		A major milestone in astronomical history took place recently at the W.M. Keck Observatory when scientists, for the first time, used a laser to create an artificial guide star on the Keck II 10-meter telescope to correct the blurring of a star with adaptive optics (AO).
		Team members responsible for the Keck LGS AO system are Antonin Bouchez, Jason Chin, Adam Contos, Scott Hartman, Erik Johansson, Robert Lafon, David Le Mignant, Chris Neyman, Paul Stomski, Doug Summers, Marcos van Dam, and Peter Wizinowich, all from the W.M. Keck Observatory, California Association for Research in Astronomy.
		The W.M. Keck Observatory is operated by the California Association for Research in Astronomy, a scientific partnership of the California Institute of Technology.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/keck_adaptive_optics.html (1279 words)

	06.03.2002 - Keck Telescope's adaptive optics let astronomers study volcanic activity on Io from armchair on Earth
		Berkeley - New adaptive optics on Hawaii's Keck Telescope have produced the sharpest infrared images yet of the entire surface of Io, one of Jupiter's moons, allowing astronomers to study the moon and its volcanoes regularly from Earth rather than rely on space-based observations from the Galileo satellite orbiting the planet.
		The images were then converted by a Keck team to an animation and a Java applet, which gives interactive control with simultaneous comparisons to close-up pictures taken at visible wavelengths by the Galileo orbiter.
		The project to image the surface of Io and demonstrate the imaging performance of the Keck adaptive optics with NIRC2 is being led jointly by Marchis and David Le Mignant, PhD, of the observatory.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2002/06/03_keck.html (851 words)

	Tim Williams - University of Arizona - Astronomy
		Using the Keck Telescopes, the group surveying quasars as old as twelve billion years to reach the startling conclusions.
		The Keck Interferometer obtained Keck-Keck fringes on the night of March 12, 2001.
		Keck Observatory for the international rate of sixty cents as part of this series.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~trw/astro (531 words)

	Current Positions Paschal Murray, Executive Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Keck Observatory is located on the summit of Hawaii’s dormant Mauna Kea volcano on the “Big Island” of Hawaii.
		Currently, the observatory operates twin 10 meter Keck Telescopes (the world’s largest) providing scientists the research opportunity to probe the deepest regions of the Universe.
		The administrative headquarters for the W.M. Keck Observatory is located in the town of Kamuela on land donated by Parker Ranch.
	www.paschalmurray.com /positions/JobDetail.cfm?jobid=191 (750 words)

	Talk by John Gathright, Keck Observatory, Hawaii - Friday, 26 May at 4:30 pm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This presentation will first introduce the observatory and AO system in general, and then cover certain of their features in order to provide the context for a discussion of the design and implementation of the emerging product, which we call the WUI -- Web-based User Interface.
		The WUI approach is now being extended to additional major observatory components, including the Active Control System (for the primary mirror) and the Interferometer (being built in conjunction with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory).
		The William M. Keck Observatory operates two 10-meter telescopes at the summit of Mauna Kea, a 14,000-foot extinct volcano on the Big Island in Hawaii.
	mailman.cs.uchicago.edu /pipermail/colloquium/2000-May/000001.html (625 words)

	Astronomy photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Photographs of the Mauna Kea Observatories, the Keck telescope, the night sky seen from Hawaii, star trail photographs, and the 1991 total solar eclipse.
		The Keck II telescope is at the left, and the Keck I telescope is on the right.
		The Keck telescope domes and the Subaru telescope enclosure at sunrise on July 16, 2000, immediately after the total lunar eclipse.
	www.wainscoat.com /astronomy (525 words)

	Laser Vision Gives New Eyes To Keck Telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With the atmospheric blurring removed by the Keck adaptive optics system, and the large diameter of a 10-meter mirror, the Keck II telescope is now more powerful than even the largest space-based telescope for looking at the cosmos in the near infrared.
		"Keck's achievement in bringing this new technology to fruition marks nothing less than a renaissance in ground-based infrared astronomy, equivalent to the day Galileo first turned his telescope to look at the night sky," said Dr. Matt Mountain, director of the Gemini Observatory, which operates twin 8-meter telescopes.
		The W. Keck Observatory is managed by the California Association for Research in Astronomy (CARA), a non-profit 501 (c) 3 corporation whose board of directors includes members from the California Institute of Technology, the
	www.wmkeck.org /contentManagement/PR_1109f792-6f14-4a0c-9aa6-3701cab76a6d.htm (1066 words)

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