James Maxwell Telescope
The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) is an infrared telescope located at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, USA. It is the largest astronomical telescope in the world designed specifically to operate in the submillimetre regime (i.e. between the far-infrared and the microwave regions of the electromagnetic spectrum). With a primary mirror diameter of 15 metres (16.4 yards), JCMT is used to study the Solar System, interstellar gas and dust, as well as distant galaxies.
The JCMT is funded by a partnership between the UK, Canada and The Netherlands. It is operated by the Joint Astronomy Centre and was named in honour of the late James Clerk Maxwell, a Scottish physicist and mathematician. The telescope is located near the summit of Mauna Kea at an altitude of 4,092 metres.
Cryoconnect was involved in the design and manufacturing of harnesses for SCUBA-2, a state-of-the-art, wide-field camera giving unprecedented sensitivity and imaging power. SCUBA-2 is mounted on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii.
For more information on the telescope, visit the following website: www.jach.hawaii.edu/JCMT/. Follow this link to visit our page on SCUBA-2.