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3 unusual facts about James Clerk Maxwell Telescope


James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

Continuum emission is a tracer of star formation in other galaxies and gives astronomers clues to the presence, distance, and evolution history of galaxies other than our own.

The telescope site agreement with the University of Hawaii provides observer accommodation and infrastructure in exchange for open access to international proposals and 10 per cent of the observing time for the University's own projects.

Walter Gear

Having completed a BSc and PhD at Queen Mary, University of London, Gear worked at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh where he led the construction of the SCUBA camera for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii.


Michael Rowan-Robinson

Rowan-Robinson's research interests include: The Spitzer Space Telescope SWIRE project; The European Large Area ISO Survey; The UK SCUBA Survey (see James Clerk Maxwell Telescope); The IRAS PSC Redshift Survey ; the Herschel Space Observatory SPIRE instrument; the Planck Surveyor HFI.

UK Astronomy Technology Centre

Its initial "customers" were the then new Gemini Observatory, the former ROE observatories in Hawaii (the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT)), and a former RGO observatory, the Isaac Newton Group on La Palma, Canary Islands.


see also

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Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array, an instrument used on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope