Honolulu: Director of the New Solar Telescope Project in Hawaii which will be the strongest of the expectations of scientists will be able to start observations at this facility in three months.
The Solar Telescope Daniel K Inouye, at the top of the Haleaka volcano in Maui, it should open the last fall.
But Thomas Rimmele told Hawaii Public Radio on Wednesday that Covid-19 travel restrictions arranged the construction back on his critical system.
He hopes that the current schedule will not be influenced by Coronavirus cases that have just soared and additional restrictions.
Rimmele hopes to return to Maui this week.
“November 15 is what we shot.
We just had a large review, the final construction review was conducted by the National Science Foundation,” Rimmele said.
“(Scientists) are increasingly anxious to resolve their observations and data.” The telescope has received around 100 proposals from researchers for the initial two and a half months observation window.
Choose, which is usually done by the first scientists, is very dependent on the atmospheric conditions and what objects seen on certain days.
He said a quarter or even one fifth of the proposal can be approved for the first cycle.
“We are very advantageous and people have to submit more proposals for the next cycle,” he said.
“That’s how it works.” The National Solar Observatory said Inouye Telescope would be able to reveal three times smaller features than anything that can be seen by scientists in the current sunlight.
The Hawaii Supreme Court in 2016 confirms permission for the construction of solar telescopes.
The following year, more than 100 protesters tried to block the construction convoy leading to the telescope site, quoting the hallakala summit summit.
Maui police then arrested six people.
Protests against other telescopes are planned for different mountains and islands – Telescope Thirty Meter at Mauna Kea summit on the large island – has prevented the construction crew to work on the project.