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Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope comparison table
Subject has reference has location has owner has latitude has mirror maker is a kind of has temperature has acronym has mirror type has altitude is an instance of has focal ratio has aperture has mount has definition has mounting manufacturer has longitude has mirror diameter has creation date
Horseshoe equatorial telescope   in degrees, minutes, seconds (N or S) equatorial telescopeambient  height above sea level in meters   Horseshoe equatorial the person, company or institution that constructed the mountingin degrees, minutes, seconds (E or W)  
optical telescopeastroweb    electromagnetic telescope             
reflector    the person, company or institution that created the mirrorelectromagnetic telescope  material and other engineering details   or primary mirror diameter A device for gathering and amplifying light or other energy by means of a mirror.  equal to aperture (except for Schmidt which has aperture smaller than mirror diameter) 
Canada-France-Hawaii TelescopeastrowebMauna Kea, Hawaii, USCanada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.19° 49' NDominion Astrophys. Obs. ambientCFHTCer-Vit4200 mHorseshoe equatorial telescopef/3.8, 8, 20, 353.58 mHorseshoe equatorial SNACRP155° 28' Wequal to aperture (except for Schmidt which has aperture smaller than mirror diameter)1979

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