{"id":14,"date":"2020-01-29T10:27:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T15:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2024-10-21T10:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T14:37:20","slug":"facilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our most commonly used resources (click image for more information):<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:100%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lowell.edu\/research\/telescopes-and-facilities\/ldt\/\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"\/buwd\/files\/2020\/02\/DCT.jpg\" width=\"220\" title=\"Lowell Discovery Telescope\" alt=\"Lowell Discovery Telescope\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pto\/\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"\/buwd\/files\/2020\/02\/RubinPerkins.jpg\" width=\"220\" title=\"BU Perkins Telescope\" alt=\"BU Perkins Telescope\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hubblesite.org\/\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"\/buwd\/files\/2020\/02\/HST.jpg\" width=\"220\" title=\"Hubble Space Telescope\" alt=\"Hubble Space Telescope\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<h5><center>4.3-meter Lowell Discovery Telescope (Happy Jack, AZ, USA)<\/center><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<h5><center>1.8-meter BU Perkins Telescope (Flagstaff, AZ, USA)<\/center><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<h5><center>NASA\u2019s <em>Hubble Space Telescope<\/em><\/center><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/webb\/\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"\/buwd\/files\/2024\/10\/jwst.jpg\" width=\"220\" title=\"JWST\" alt=\"JWST\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/docs\/tess\/\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"\/buwd\/files\/2020\/02\/TESS.jpg\" width=\"220\" title=\"Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite\" alt=\"Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sci.esa.int\/web\/gaia\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"\/buwd\/files\/2020\/02\/Gaia.jpg\" width=\"220\" title=\"Gaia space observatory\" alt=\"Gaia space observatory\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<h5><center>NASA\u2019s JWST Great Observatory<\/em><\/center><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<h5><center>NASA\u2019s <em>Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)<\/em><\/center><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<h5><center>ESA\u2019s <em>Gaia<\/em> Space Observatory<\/center><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mcdonald.utexas.edu\/for-researchers\/research-facilities\/2-1-m-82-otto-struve-telescope\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"\/buwd\/files\/2020\/02\/OttoStruve.jpg\" width=\"220\" title=\"Otto Struve telescope\" alt=\"Otto Struve telescope\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/noirlab.edu\/public\/programs\/ctio\/soar-telescope\/\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"\/buwd\/files\/2020\/02\/SOAR.jpg\" width=\"220\" title=\"SOAR telescope\" alt=\"SOAR telescope\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/paranal-observatory\/vlt\/\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"\/buwd\/files\/2020\/02\/VLT.jpg\" width=\"220\" title=\"Very Large Telescope\" alt=\"Very Large Telescope\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<h5><center>2.1-meter Otto Struve telescope (McDonald Observatory, West Texas, USA)<\/center><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<h5><center>4.1-meter SOAR telescope (Cerro Pach\u00f3n, Chile)<\/center><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<h5><center>8.2-meter Very Large Telescope (Cerro Paranal, Chile)<\/center><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdss5.org\/\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"\/buwd\/files\/2020\/12\/SDSS.jpg\" width=\"220\" title=\"SDSS\" alt=\"SDSS\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu\/~assassin\/index.shtml\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"\/buwd\/files\/2020\/02\/ASAS_OGLE.jpg\" width=\"220\" title=\"ASAS-SN\" alt=\"ASAS-SN\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ztf.caltech.edu\/\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"\/buwd\/files\/2020\/02\/ZTF-Palomar48inch.jpg\" width=\"220\" title=\"ZTF\" alt=\"ZTF\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<h5><center>Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V)<\/center><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<h5><center>All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN)<\/center><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"33%\">\n<h5><center>Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF, Palomar Observatory, CA, USA)<\/center><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our most commonly used resources (click image for more information): 4.3-meter Lowell Discovery Telescope (Happy Jack, AZ, USA) 1.8-meter BU Perkins Telescope (Flagstaff, AZ, USA) NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope NASA\u2019s JWST Great Observatory NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) ESA\u2019s Gaia Space Observatory 2.1-meter Otto Struve telescope (McDonald Observatory, West Texas, USA) 4.1-meter SOAR telescope 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