Multicolor Active Galactic Nuclei Monitoring

Multicolor Active Galactic Nuclei Monitoring or MAGNUM was a project completed in 2008, that used a 2 meter (78.7 inch) telescope at Haleakala, Hawaii.^[1] The project started in 1995, and with telescope observations starting in 2000 for the scientific study of active galactic nuclei.^[2] It was run by the University of Tokyo, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and Australian National University.^[1][3] MAGNUM was one of the telescopes that observed a cosmic explosion billions of years away in 2005.^[4] The telescope was used for a long-term study of the size of the universe;^[5] for example it studied the Seyfert 1 galaxies NGC 5548, NGC 4051, NGC 3227, and NGC 7469^[6] The telescope was located at the Haleakala Observatory and was installed in north dome previously used by LURE.^[1]

This was an astronomy project that used an automated telescope to look for AGN at visible and near infrared wavelengths.^[7]