The CFHT Archive

This www site presents a World-Wide-Web link into the CADC's CFHT Catalog, the listing of observations obtained with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, from February 1990 to the present. These pages allow searches for CFHT observations using criteria such as object name and RunID. The results of the search in a tabular format.

Proprietary Data Access: proprietary data can be retrieved only by the Principal Investigator (PI) of the observing run or by CADC account holders that the PI has granted access to. To registered your PI dataset or grant access to a CADC user, please visit the PI Registration and access management page.

The typical proprietary period for CFHT data is approximately 13 months from the time of the observation.

To perform a search of the CFHT archive, select one of the datasets to query in the menu at the top. You can search the entire catalogue of CFHT exposures or search an individual instrument catalogue.

For Help using the forms please see the Help tab on the top menu. Also, linked form elements can be clicked on to provide more detailed information about a particular constraint.