05-14-2017, 09:15 AM
Gypsy,
You ask a lot of questions. Do you read the answers?
You state, and imply that UH & UHH cannot possibly compete with the big universities for viewing time on Mauna Kea's telescopes:
Not all Universities can compete for that viewing time with the Yale's, Harvard's or Princeton's budgets, including UHH and UH. jmo
But just yesterday TomK explained UH receives 15% of the observatories viewing time:
The observatories' rent is provided by giving the University of Hawaii free access to the telescopes, typically 15% of observing time each year. This cost is borne by the observatories and comes out of their operating costs. For each of the larger observatories, this can amount to a few million dollars a year.
If I know what I shall find, I do not want to find it. Uncertainty is the salt of life. - biochemist Erwin Chargaff
You ask a lot of questions. Do you read the answers?
You state, and imply that UH & UHH cannot possibly compete with the big universities for viewing time on Mauna Kea's telescopes:
Not all Universities can compete for that viewing time with the Yale's, Harvard's or Princeton's budgets, including UHH and UH. jmo
But just yesterday TomK explained UH receives 15% of the observatories viewing time:
The observatories' rent is provided by giving the University of Hawaii free access to the telescopes, typically 15% of observing time each year. This cost is borne by the observatories and comes out of their operating costs. For each of the larger observatories, this can amount to a few million dollars a year.
If I know what I shall find, I do not want to find it. Uncertainty is the salt of life. - biochemist Erwin Chargaff
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”