Careers in Astronomy in Canada
Careers in Astronomy in Canada
Major Canadian Telescopes
Pioneer type, often from sunset to sunrise, over 4 to 6 days in a year living on a mountain top or deep in a valley. Astronomers
don't look with their eyes through a telescope; instruments and computers
record what is there (for later analysis back home).
- Optical (greater than 1.5 meters in diameter):
- Canada has a 13.2% share in the twin 8m optical Gemini telescopes, a/s Gemini, 950 N. Cherry Ave., POBox 26732, Tucson, AZ 85762-6732, USA
- Canada has a 42.5% share in the 3.6m optical
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, a/s CFHT, Box 1597,
Kamuela, Hawaii 96743, USA
- Liquid Mirror Telescope, 2.7m diameter, a/s Paul Hickson,
Physics & Astronomy Dept., Univ. Brit. Col., Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
- David Dunlap Observatory, 1.9m telescope,
University of Toronto, POBox 360, Richmond Hill, Ont., Canada L4C 4Y6
- Dom. Astrophys. Observatory's 1.8m optical telescope, 5071 W. Saanich Rd.,
Victoria, BC, Canada V8X 4M6
- Rothney Astrophysical Observatory, 1.8m telescope,
Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, Alb., Canada T2N 1N4
- Mont Mégantic Observatoire, 1.6m telescope,
b.p. 24, Notre-Dame-des-Bois, Mégantic-Compton,
Qué., Canada J0B 2E0.
- Radio:
- Canada has a 25.0% share in the 15m radio
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, a/s JCMT, 660 North A'ohoku Place, Univ. Park, Hilo,
Hawaii 96720, USA.
- Dom. Radio Astrophys. Observatory,
PO Box 248, Penticton, BC, Canada V2A 6K3
- Theoretical:
- Canada supports the
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics,
McLennan Physical Lab., Univ. of Toronto,
60 St.George St., Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S 3H8
Updated: 2003 June