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  Name Subaru Telescope
  Caption The Subaru at sunset
  Organization National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
  Location Mauna Kea, Hawaii
  Wavelength Optical/IR
  Built Completed 1998
  Website http://wwwnaojorg/
  Style Cassegrain
  Diameter 82m
  Area ~53m&2
  Focal Length 15m
  Mounting Altitude/azimuth
  Dome cylindrical


Subaru Telescope (In flagship telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory Of Japan , located in Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii . It is named after the Open Star Cluster known in English as the Pleiades .

Construction of the telescope began in April 1991, and the first scientific images were taken in January 1999. A Brief History of Subaru

It is a Cassegrain Reflector .

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