> So the Chilean observatory needs a new telescope, and somehow it's built in California? It's located in Chile but typically the high budget observatories the

> So the Chilean observatory needs a new telescope, and somehow it's built in California? It's located in Chile but typically the high budget observatories there are run and funded by an international consortium of universities and national government funding. They share time on them. It's for the same reason as the telescopes in the Canary Islands.