{"id":27450,"date":"2014-09-10T09:49:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T19:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=27450"},"modified":"2021-10-26T14:05:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T00:05:48","slug":"earthquake-damaged-japanese-observatory-finds-new-home-on-haleakala-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/10\/earthquake-damaged-japanese-observatory-finds-new-home-on-haleakala-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake-damaged Japanese observatory finds new home on Haleakal\u0101"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_27395\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27395\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/t60.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/t60.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/t60-260x195.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The T60 telescope on Haleakal&#257; (photo by I. Scholl)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Japanese planetary research observatory was blessed and dedicated on Monday, September 8 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/haleakalanew\/observatories.shtml\">Haleakal&#257; Observatories<\/a> on Maui.<\/p>\n<p>The new observatory came about because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tohoku.ac.jp\/en\/\">Tohoku University&#8217;s<\/a> Planetary Science Program requested assistance from the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/homepage\/\">Institute for Astronomy<\/a> after the 2011 earthquake damaged its observatory building near Sendai, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The Institute for Astronomy was able to facilitate the re-use of an existing facility at the Haleakal&#257; Observatory to accept the Tohoku 60-centimeter (24-inch) telescope known as T60. The observatory now houses the Japanese instruments and will provide spectacular data on Mars and planetary atmospheres from Haleakal&#257;, which is one of the best observing sites in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Said Institute for Astronomy Director <strong>Guenther Hasinger<\/strong>, &ldquo;We are excited to enhance an already strong collaboration with the Japanese astronomy community by helping to get their 60-centimeter planetary telescope back on the sky.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Although this isn&#8217;t the largest telescope here, it brings unique instrumental capabilities to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>,&rdquo; added <strong>Jeff Kuhn<\/strong>, an Institute for Astronomy Maui scientist. <\/p>\n<p>Takahiro Obara, director of the Tohoku Planetary Science Program, also attended the dedication. He noted, &ldquo;We are extremely pleased to take this next step with our partners at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>. We expect that the many Japanese students and scientists that use this instrument will build an even stronger collaboration between the two institutions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/info\/press-releases\/T60\/\">An Institute for Astronomy news release<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was corrected Sept. 10 to clarify the facility re-use arrangement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Louise Good<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute for Astronomy facilitates the re-use of an existing dome on Haleakal&#257; for the Tohoku 60-centimeter telescope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[34,656,35,134,9],"class_list":["post-27450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-astronomy","tag-haleakala","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-international","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27450"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150584,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27450\/revisions\/150584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}