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| Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope |
A 10-metre 33-foot telescope at the Mount Graham International Observatory operating in the submillimetre waveband between 0.3 and 1 mm. First observations were made in 1994. It is operated jointly by the University of Arizona and the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie in Bonn, Germany.
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