Pan-STARRS

This article is about the astronomical survey program. For the Pan-STARRS comet, see C/2011 L4. For other things called "Pan-STARRS", see list of Pan-STARRS discoveries.

Pan-STARRS
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Alternative namesPanoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System
Coordinates20°42′26″N 156°15′21″W / 20.707318°N 156.25589°W / 20.707318; -156.25589 Edit this at Wikidata
Websitepswww.ifa.hawaii.edu/pswww/
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The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS1; obs. code: F51 and Pan-STARRS2 obs. code: F52) located at Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii, US, consists of astronomical cameras, telescopes and a computing facility that is surveying the sky for moving or variable objects on a continual basis, and also producing accurate astrometry and photometry of already-detected objects. In January 2019 the second Pan-STARRS data release was announced. At 1.6 petabytes, it is the largest volume of astronomical data ever released.