urn:nasa:pds:context:facility:observatory.irtf-maunakea 1.3 1.22.0.0 Product_Context urn:nasa:pds:context:facility:observatory.irtf IRTF NASA IRTF NASA Infrared Telescope Facility Infra Red Telescope Facility-Maunakea 2026-07-07 1.3 Removed duplicate Internal_Reference entries from Reference_List. 2025-01-07 1.2 Updated schema version. Adding missing "investigation" references. Adding missing "instrument" references. Adding missing "telescope" references. 2023-10-22 1.1 Revised version produced by SBN/PSI Node. Description was updated from the IRTF website 2021-11-05 1.0 Revised version produced by RMS Node, including LID, Title, Alias, and Reference List urn:nasa:pds:context:telescope:irtf-maunakea.3m2 facility_to_telescope urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:irtf-maunakea.3m2.spex facility_to_instrument urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:irtf-maunakea.3m2.primo_1 facility_to_instrument urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:irtf-maunakea.3m2.mirsi facility_to_instrument urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:irtf-maunakea.3m2.mirlin facility_to_instrument urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:irtf-maunakea.3m2.mirac facility_to_instrument urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:irtf-maunakea.3m2.mirac2 facility_to_instrument urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:irtf-maunakea.3m2.cvf facility_to_instrument urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:irtf-maunakea.3m2.mirli facility_to_instrument urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:observing_campaign.jupiter_support facility_to_investigation urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:observing_campaign.irtf_io facility_to_investigation urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:observing_campaign.earth-based-uranus-stellar-occultations facility_to_investigation Infrared Telescope Facility, Mauna Kea Observatory

Summit of Mauna Kea, C/O 640 N. Aohoku Place, #209, Hilo, HI 96720

United States The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) is one of the telescopes comprising the Mauna Kea Observatories on the Big Island of Hawaii. The IRTF is a 3.2 meter telescope optimized for infrared observations, providing observations of planetary and solar neighborhood, as well as deep space applications. The observatory is operated and managed for NASA by the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, located in Honolulu. NASA provides the costs of operation and NSF provides funding for new focal plane instrumentation through the peer review process. Observing time is open to the entire astronomical community, and 50% of the IRTF observing time is reserved for studies of planetary sciences. For more information, see https://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/