04-08-2019, 07:04 AM
The Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea is looking for funding partners in exchange for scheduled viewing time on the telescope. Apparently, huge profits in the observing-outer-space-industry are not as great as some people would have you believe. However, if they read the local newspaper (or Punaweb) they may make a new discovery about Mauna Kea.
The 20-year-old telescope costs about $16 million a year to operate, and employs 92 people in Hilo. Yoshida said NAOJ wants partners to contribute a few million dollars a year in return for use of the telescope.
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2019/04/...-partners/
The 20-year-old telescope costs about $16 million a year to operate, and employs 92 people in Hilo. Yoshida said NAOJ wants partners to contribute a few million dollars a year in return for use of the telescope.
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2019/04/...-partners/
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”