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SUBARU First Light Report |
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Shigemi Numazawa
Japan Planetarium Laboratory
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SUBARU First Light Report |
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About 3 years ago, I proposed to Dr. Norio Kaifu, who is a general director of Subaru, to broadcast a live TV program using Subaru Telescope. Fortunately, he also had same idea. I had told this idea to NHK staff, and it grew bigger project without my knowledge.
The plan finally materialized when Subaru had first light event. With NHK staff, I attached a new developed Hi-Definition Color I.I. camera to Subaru (cassegrain focus) , and we took over 150 celescial objects' images during only 2 nights. Also, we succeeded to live broadcasting to Japan using same system as first light event. To make Subaru telescope, Japanese Government spent an enormous sum of a tax, paid by the sweat of Japanese people's brow, as much as about 400 milion dollar. So, live broadcasting was significant to return the result to society, too. I heard that NHK received many letters from TV viewers who received impression from the program.
Subaru is star name that has come down to Japanese from the very distant past.
And it means Pleiades.
This photograph took Subaru star shining above Subaru Dome. 
Big dipper
shining above Subaru Dome 
Landscape of Mauna Kea summit 
Subaru Dome at sunset 
Subaru Dome in twilight 
Star trail
from SUBARU dome 
Subaru Dome and star trail 
Subaru Telescope 
Subaru Telescop and Numazawa 
Observation equipment put in cassegrain focus point 
NHK Hi-difinition
color I.I camera setted in the special box for observation 
Suprime-cam (wide-field CCD camera) 
CCD of Suprime-cam (2000x4000 Back Iluminated x6,other 2 CCD will be added soon
and it will have totally 8) 
Set up extra NHK switching center at second floor of Subaru Observation Building.
Images were transmitted from here. 
Observing Room at 3rd floor of Subaru Observation Building. Subaru telescope is
operated in this room. From left to right, Wakiya,Subaru
Telescope's operator- Dr. Goerge Kosugi, Numazawa and Dr.---- . 
With Subaru
Telescope staff 
3 Planets to the west 
There are other many more images.
You can see first light images of Subaru telescope on the folloeing site.
All object taken by NHK Hi-difinition color I.I camera (Please
don't announce now. There has been trouble between NHK and Japanese
gavament about copyright.) I took video monitor for
NHK Hi-difinition color I.I camera using potable digital video camera. These images
were made from them.
Jan/16 No.1 Jan/16 No.2 Jan/16
No.3
Jan/16 No.4 Jan/17
No.1
Jan/17 No.2
Jan/17 No.3
Mauna Kea images taken past
Please send me E-mail just after getting images.numazawa@nisiq.netIf you have any request and question, please send E-mail to Numazawa. numazawa@nisiq.net If also you want to use some image in this page, please mail to Atlas Photo Bank. All photographs and illustrations in this page are managed by Atlas Photo Bank -Tokyo atlas@kt.rim.or.jp
