urn:nasa:pds:context:facility:observatory.naoj-hawaii 1.0 1.11.0.0 Product_Context Subaru Telescope 2018-10-03 1.0 Created from information from NAOJ website: https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/ and the telescope website: https://subarutelescope.org urn:nasa:pds:context:telescope:naoj-hawaii.subaru_8m2 facility_to_telescope Iye et al., (2004) Current Performance and On-Going Improvements of the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope, Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan, 56, 381-397. Published document providing an overview of the Subaru telescope and facility. National Astronomical Observatory of Japan at Mauna Kea, Hawai'i Observatory

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

United States Located on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawai'i, access is managed by Mauna Kea Observatories, through the University of Hawai'i's Hilo Base Facility. The observatory is located at 19°49'33" N, 155°28'35" W. Excerpt from (Iye et al., 2004): Following the recommendations of the Science Council of Japan, the project was fully approved and construction of JNLT began in 1991 April (Kogure, Kodaira 1991). A call for proposals for renaming JNLT ended up with its new name, Subaru Telescope, after the old and familiar Japanese name for the visible star cluster Pleiades (Kodaira 1992). Progress of the project and the instrumentation plan was critically reviewed at another international conference held in Tokyo in 1994 (Iye, Nishimura 1995). The Subaru Telescope base facility was established at the University of Hawaii campus in Hilo, Hawaii, in 1997 April, and more than 20 NAOJ staff relocated from the Mitaka campus to begin work on the telescope in collaboration with local staff recruited through the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii. The progress of construction was reported on several occasions (Iye 1997; Kaifu 1998), and the engineering First Light of the Subaru Telescope was achieved on 1998 December 24. Reports on First Light observations were published in 2000 (Kaifu et al. 2000; Iye et al. 2000). An inauguration ceremony was held in 1999 September. The 9- year construction project was completed in 2000 March, and the telescope has been made available to both Japanese and the international community of astronomers since 2000 December.