WIYN Consortium founding members were the

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

(W),

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(I),

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

(Y), and the

National Optical Astronomy Observatories The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) was the United States national observatory for ground-based nighttime ultraviolet-Visible spectrum, optical-infrared (OUVIR) astronomy. The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded NOAO to provide ...

(N). Yale University withdrew from the WIYN consortium on April 1, 2014, and was replaced by the

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in the fall of that year. In 2015, a NASA-NSF partnership called NN-EXPLORE effectively took over NOAO's share, although NOAO still manages the operations.

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joined in 2017 for a three-year period.Purdue.edu
Purdue Department Joins WIYN Consortium
December 15, 2016, Retrieved February 22, 2020 The

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operates two

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s of 3.5 m and 0.9 m diameters. The universities financed the construction of the WIYN Observatory at

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(KPNO) in 1994. In 2001, the WIYN Consortium took over control of the KPNO telescope, built in 1960, and rechristened it as the ''WIYN 0.9 m Telescope''. This small but popular telescope was in danger of being

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ed for budgetary reasons.

References

External links

WIYN Consortium
- official site Astronomy institutes and departments {{sci-org-stub