UH88
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The University of Hawai'i 88-inch (2.2-meter) telescope, also called UH88, UH2.2 or simply 88 by members of the local astronomical community, is situated at the Mauna Kea Observatory, and operated by the University's Institute for Astronomy. It was constructed in 1968, and entered service in 1970, at which point it was known as "The Mauna Kea Observatory." In the late 1970s, it became the first professional telescope to be controlled by computer.
As the only research telescope controlled solely by the University, UH88 is the primary telescope used by its professors, postdoctoral scholars and graduate students. The Institute for Astronomy also makes agreements with other organizations for a portion of available observing time. Currently, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan uses UH88 for some research projects for which its far larger and more expensive Subaru Observatory, also on Mauna Kea, would be overkill. The Nearby Supernova Factory project, based at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, also has its Supernova Integrated Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) instrument mounted on UH88.
