WIYN Consortium founding members were theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison (W),Indiana University (I),Yale University (Y), and theNational Optical Astronomy Observatories (N). Yale University withdrew from the WIYN consortium on April 1, 2014, and was replaced by theUniversity of Missouri 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.[1]Purdue University joined in 2017 for a three-year period.[2]
Theconsortium operates twotelescopes of 3.5 m and 0.9 m diameters.
The universities financed the construction of theWIYN Observatory atKitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in 1994.
In 2001, the WIYN Consortium took over control of the KPNO 36-inch (910 mm) telescope, built in 1960, andrechristened it as theWIYN 0.9 m Telescope. This small but popular telescope was in danger of beingmothballed for budgetary reasons.
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