PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 LABEL_REVISION_NOTE = " 18 Jan 2003, A.C.Raugh: Lien-revision editing 05 Aug 2003, M. Gordon: Re-written " OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST INSTRUMENT_HOST_ID = "IRTF" OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST_INFORMATION INSTRUMENT_HOST_NAME = "NASA INFRARED TELESCOPE FACILITY" INSTRUMENT_HOST_TYPE = "EARTH BASED" INSTRUMENT_HOST_DESC = " Instrument Host Overview ======================== The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility is a 3.0-meter telescope located at the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawai'i. Location ======== The observatory location data given here are geodetic latitude and east longitude, based on values from the Astronomical Almanac, 1989. The geocentric site radius was determined using the MERIT 1983 earth figure, equatorial radius = 6378.137 km and flattening of the reference spheroid = 1/298.257. Latitude: 19.829 Degrees Longitude: -155.475 Degrees Earth radius at observatory: 6379.9 Kilometers " END_OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST_INFORMATION OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST_REFERENCE_INFO REFERENCE_KEY_ID = "N/A" END_OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST_REFERENCE_INFO END_OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST END