Observing with Subaru Telescope

Basic information about the performance and technical specifications of the Subaru Telescope is available.

• Telescope

Here are links to the Subaru instruments. If you want information about a specific instrument, go to that instrument's home page. Read the Current instrument status report first.

• AO - Adaptive Optics unit
• CIAO - Coronagraphic Imager for Adaptive Optics
• COMICS - Cooled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrograph
• FOCAS - Faint Object Camera And Spectrograph
• HDS - High Dispersion Spectrograph
• IRCS - Infrared Camera and Spectrograph
• MOIRCS - Multi-Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph.
• OHS/CISCO - OH Suppressor/Cooled Infrared Spectrograph and Camera for OHS.
• Suprime-Cam - Subaru Prime Focus Camera

The Proposals section contains the following information:

• Submitting Subaru proposals
• Information for Visiting Observers
• Publishing results from Subaru Telescope

Here is the current Subaru Telescope schedule.

Observing conditions

• Conditions from the Subaru weather tower
• Summit forecast (from the Mauna Kea Weather Center)
• Satellite images and animations
• CSO tau monitor (plots of past 24 and 48 hours)
• Other weather pages: CFHT, Gemini

Data Reduction

• Subaru Data Reduction Manuals

These pages are being continuously updated as the performance of telescope and instruments are better understood. Questions regarding these web pages or general inquiries about using Subaru Telescope should be directed to Tomonori Usuda .