The CADC is located at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria , B.C., Canada, part of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics under the National Research Council of Canada. The CADC was established in 1986 as one of three world-wide distribution centres for data from the Hubble Space Telescope HST archive is possible trough a grant from the Canadian Space Agency . Most of the CADC software development is done in collaboration with the European Southern Observatories located in Garching, near Munchen, Germany and the Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facilities . The CADC is also responsible for archiving data from the Canada France Hawaii Telescope . If you want to know more about the CADC mandate .
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