How to pronounce “keck” in English

Keck.

Keck telescopes.

the Keck telescopes with adaptive optics on versus adaptive optics off of between 10 and 20, depending on the atmospheric conditions.

And Keck and another -- a number of observatories, but I think we got some of the best data, looked at the material right after this impact with an infrared spectrograph tuned to the

was operating on the Keck 10-meter telescope in Hawaii.

I used the Keck telescopes for that work.

These are the Keck telescopes on Hawaii.

And Bill Keck, our amazing musical director.

the twin Keck 10-meter telescopes in Hawaii.

And so he joined Keck in 2006.

before the Keck telescopes started looking at this area of the sky with adaptive optics.

So with the Kecks, I could get spectra of these type 1a supernovae that at redshifts of, say, 0.455 in this case.

And here we look with our Keck, and assuming they only have 10-meter telescopes is really a very conservative assumption.

And let us not forget Bill Keck, our composer.

to find planets around other stars and Keck Observatory has played a really big role in this.

second using adaptive optics on Keck.

And we have other evidence with the Keck telescopes that this is a super massive black hole.

was made in 2009 with Keck Observatory.

I'm privileged to be a user of the mighty Keck telescopes in Hawaii.

So this is the lowest mass planet found so far by Keck.

This is an image of -- for our adaptive optics system with Keck.

Can you tell us a little bit about how Keck can be used to observe or

This was modeled after what we call the KeckCAVES, which are at UC Davis.

And this is data taken over about the course of a decade using the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

We go to our ground-based telescopes, the Keck 10-meter telescope in particular, and we measured the Doppler wobble-- that's what's being depicted on the right.

Here's Fred Chaffee, a former director of Keck, just showing you the size scale of these gigantic eyes that are gathering light from afar.

stars right at the very center of the galaxy until -- until adaptive optics on the Keck telescope started probing this area at very high resolution, led by Andre's group.

We really want to optimize Keck to follow up on those spectrascopically.

Well, Taft and our friends from Keck, thank you very much for coming.

So here they are, and they shine it out with a Keck-type telescope, and they send this diffraction limited beam.

So now, how much did the Keck Observatory cost?

This is an object, this image was made using one of the giant Keck telescopes in Hawaii, it's a seven hour exposure time.

So we're able, we're able with Keck Observatory to measure velocities to one meter per second on stars that are typically 20 or 30 light years away.

The thing that limits the Keck telescopes the most is the atmosphere.

So we cope with this with adaptive optics and Keck was the first large telescope to have an adaptive optic system.

And this is the inner -- this is a view of the galactic center determined using the Keck telescopes by a group led by ANDRE GAST.

This is Keck's current AO system.

So in wrapping up, what does the future look like for ground-based astronomy and Keck Observatory?

Well, I was wondering if you could talk more about the outreach that Keck does to, you know -- like talks like this are awesome but do you,

And they're working really hard on it to see if water vapor was detected with Keck and that same spectrograph that determined the methane called the near speck spectrograph.

So there are certain types of research that you simply can't do with the Hubble and the 30-meter and the Kecks.

So if you go to our -- if you go to our Observatory website, KeckObservatory.org, you can get at those podcasts. We sometimes have lectures about new technical

And so today we're very pleased to be joined by our friends from the Keck

And he's going to talk to us today about some of the new innovations that are going on at Keck,

The Keck Foundation gave us the capital, most

And astronomers were using a supernovae, so exploding stars, with Keck Observatory.

But we were particularly thrilled to have a result that had -- where the Keck telescopes had played such

More than half of them have data from Keck Observatory that's contributed to that.

And so for the first time in late 2008, this star, HR 8799, was imaged with Keck Observatory.