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FEDERAL FUNDING OF ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH

more flexibility in trading facility instrument funds for telescope access. (See “On the National Science Foundation's Revised Facility Instrumentation Program,” June 2, 1999, provided to AURA and NSF.) This modified payback scheme would allow the NSF to more fairly recognize and award independent observatories for their successes in obtaining private and state funds for construction and operation.

TABLE 5.13 Optical/IR Telescopes of Aperture >5 Meters Currently Accessible to U.S. Astronomers or Under Construction

Name	% U.S.	Year	Aperture(m)	Capital Cost (millions of dollars)^a	Instrumentation (millions of dollars)^a
Keck I	100	1993	10	94	13.5
Keck II	100	1996	10	78	28.1
HET	90	1998	9	17	3.6
MMT^b	100	2000	6.5	23	26
Gemini-North^c	52	1999	8	86	11.2
Gemini-South^c	42	2001	8	86	7.6
Magellan I	90	2000	6.5	38	9
Magellan II	90	2002	6.5	36	9
LBT	50	2002	2×8.4	77	13
SALT	12	2002	10	17
NOTE: Acronyms are defined in Appendix H. ^a Costs are the total construction and current integrated instrumentation budgets, including the U.S. share. ^b The MMT capital cost is for the conversion from 4.5-meter only. ^c Gemini instrumentation costs are those included in the original capital construction budget. Gemini has a separate line for new instrumentation that is included in its annual operations budget.