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Canada France Hawaii Telescope
The Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) is located on Mauna Kea on the is-
land of Hawaii at an altitude of 4200 meters. The CFHT has a 3.6-m aperture that
supports a wide range of optical and infrared instruments, including PUEO and
adaptive optics bonette that employs a curvature sensor to provide correction. An
image-stabilized spectrometer, based on an active mirror system, is also available.
The CFHT is operated by the National Research Council of Canada, Centre Na-
tional de la Recherche Scientifique of France, and the University of Hawaii, U.S.A.

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Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
The Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), 80 km east of La Serena,
Chile, at an altitude of at 2200 meters, is operated by the National Optical Astronomy
Observatory. It hosts a 4-m Victor M. Blanco telescope, the 4.1-m SOAR telescope,
and four telescopes in the 0.9 to 1.5-m aperture range. The Blanco telescope is
equipped with an autoguider and a tip-tilt secondary mirror. The tip-tilt secondary
provides an f /14.5 focus, commonly used with the facility's infrared imager/spectro-
graph. The SOAR telescope has a thin, lightweight primary mirror with electrome-
chanical actuators to control the figure, a hexapod secondary mirror for real-time
optical alignment, and a tertiary mirror that provides tip-tilt correction to improve
image quality in the near infrared.