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The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) is an optical/infrared reflector telescope near summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, at around 4100 m elevation operated by the National Research Council of Canada, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of France and the University of Hawaii. It began operation in 1979. Instruments include:
Previously listed instruments:
The term NGCFHT (for "next generation CFHT") and similar terms have been used for an eventual successor to the CFHT at exactly the same location, a modern telescope with more research value. The last two decades have produced a number of concepts, including some for a 10 m class instrument, one recent concept termed the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE). Such a replacement, which optimistically would occur during the 2020s, would require an outage of multiple years.