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    OBSERVATORIES AND TELESCOPES

    The following observatories, telescopes, and other instruments have entries in the encyclopedia. Apart from the Hubble Space Telescope, this list does not include spaceborne equipment. For orbiting observatories, see satellites and space probes.

    Advanced Fiber-Optic Echelle spectrometer (AFOE)
    Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO)
    Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT)
    Algonquin Radio Observatory
    Allegheny Observatory
    Apache Point Observatory (APO)
    Arecibo Observatory
    Arecibo Radio Telescope
    Argus Radio Telescope
    Astronomical Nulling Interferometer
    Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
    Australian National Radio Observatory (ANRO)
    Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF)
    Allen Telescope Array (ATA)

    Big Bear Solar Observatory
    Big Ear
    Bol’shoi Teleskop Azimultal’nyi
    Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory

    Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
    Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)
    Carnegie Observatories
    Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics (CAAO)
    Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO)
    Coralie
    Crimean Astrophysical Observatory

    Dominion Astrophysical Observatory (DAO)

    Effelsberg Radio Observatory
    Elodie
    Emilie
    ESO Coudé Échelle Spectrometer
    European Northern Observatory (ENO)
    European Southern Observatory (ESO)
    extremely large telescope

    Follow-Up Detection Device

    Gemini Observatory
    Giant Magellan Telescope
    Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG)
    Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC)
    Green Bank
    Green Bank Telescope
    Griffith Observatory

    Hale Observatories
    Hale Telescope
    Harvard College Observatory (HCO)
    Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)
    Harvard-Smithsonian Radio Telescope
    Hat Creek Radio Observatory
    Haut-Provence Observatory (Observatoire de Haut-Provence)
    High Resolution Échelle Spectrometer (HIRES)
    Haystack Observatory
    Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET)
    Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

    Infra-Red Telescope Facility (IRTF)

    James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT)
    Jodrell Bank Observatory
    Joint Astronomy Centre (JAC)

    Keck Interferometer
    Keck Observatory
    Keck Telescopes
    Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO)
    Kitt Peak 12-Meter Telescope
    Kuiper Airborne Observatory

    La Silla Observatory
    Large Binocular Telescope (LBT)
    Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT)
    Large Southern Array (LSA)
    Las Campanas Observatory
    Leonard Euler Telescope
    Leuschner Observatory
    Lick Observatory
    LINEAR (Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research) program
    Lovell Telescope
    Lowell Observatory

    MACHO Project
    Magellan Telescope
    Multichannel Astrometric Photometer (MAP)
    Multichannel Astrometric Photometer and Spectrometer (MAPS)
    Mauna Kea observatories
    Mayall Telescope
    McDonald Observatory
    McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope
    Minor Planet Center (MPC)
    Multi-Channel Spectrum Analyzer (MCSA)
    Meudon Observatory
    Mid-Infrared Large-well Imager (MIRLIN)
    Mopra Telescope
    Mount Graham International Observatory (MGIO)
    Mount Hopkins Observatory
    Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories
    Mount Wilson Observatory
    Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT)

    National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO)
    National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
    National Solar Observatory (NSO)
    Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT)
    Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO)

    Oak Ridge Observatory
    observatory
    Ohio State University Radio Observatory
    Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE)
    Optical Very Large Array (OVLA)
    OverWhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL)
    Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO)

    Palomar Observatory
    Palomar Testbed Interferometer
    Paranal Observatory
    Paris Observatory
    Parkes Observatory
    Parkes Radio Telescope
    Paul Wild Observatory
    Pic-du-Midi Observatory
    Probing Lensing Anomalies Network (PLANET)

    Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM)
    Royal Greenwich Observatory

    Sacramento Peak Observatory
    Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
    Siding Spring Observatory
    SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy)
    South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)
    South African Large Telescope (SALT)
    Spacewatch Project
    Special Astrophysical Observatory
    Sproul Observatory
    Sternberg State Astronomical Institute
    Steward Observatory
    Subaru Telescope
    Submillimeter Array
    Submillimeter Telescope Observatory (SMTO)
    Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO)
    Super-Kamiokande

    Targeted Search System

    United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT)
    United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope (UKST)
    U.S. Naval Observatory

    Very Large Array (VLA)
    Very Large Telescope (VLT)
    Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
    Visible and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA)
    Vulcan Camera Project

    Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT)
    Whipple (Fred Lawrence) Observatory
    William Herschel Telescope
    WIYN Telescope
    WorldWide Telescope

    Yerkes Observatory




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