Very Large Telescope
Very Large Telescope
:Now that the name VLT has been used up, their next project is called OWL (Overwhelmingly Large Telescope). Just the rotating part of OWL will weigh 12000 tons!!
:By the way, you can sign your Username and Date with four tildes (the wavy thingy above the hash sign).
:Adrian Pingstone 18:37, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Large Binocular Telescope
The Large Binocular Telescope (originally named the Columbus Project) is a joint project of the Italian astronomical community (represented by the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)), the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, the LBT Beteiligungsgesellschaft in Germany Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie in Heidelberg, Landessternwarte in Heidelberg, Astrophysikalisches Institut in Potsdam, Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik in Munich, and Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie in Bonn), The Ohio State University, Research Corporation in Tucson, and the University of Notre Dame.
The final configuration will be a telescope with two 8.4-meter mirrors mounted on a common base (hence the name "binocular"), taking full advantage of the active and adaptive optics provided by Arcetri Observatory. Also, an interferometric mode will be available, with a baseline of 23 meters.
When the LBT is fully operational, it will be the world's most technologically advanced optical telescope, creating images in the near-infrared expected to be nearly 10 times sharper than images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
It is located on the 10,700-foot Mount Graham in southeastern Arizona. The choice of location sparked considerable local controversy, both among the San Carlos Apache Tribe who claimed the mountain as sacred and environmentalists who contended that the observatory would cause the demise of the endangered Mount Graham red squirrel. Environmentalists and members of the tribe filed some 40 lawsuits - eight of which ended up before a federal appeals court - but the project ultimately prevailed after an act of Congress.
The telescope and mountain observatory also survived two major forest fires in eight years, the most recent in the summer of 2004.
The telescope was dedicated in October 2004 and is expected to be complete in 2005.
http://www.lbto.org Website of the LBT
http://abell.as.arizona.edu/~hill/latestl.cgi
Large Millimeter Telescope
The Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) is a telescope being built for observing radio waves in the wave lengths from 1 to 4 mm. It is designed to have a diameter of 50 meters and will be located on top of the Sierra Negra volcanic peak in Mexico. It is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica, y Electrónica (INAOE).
http://www.lmtgtm.org LMT web site
Category:Radio telescopes
Large Liquid Mirror Telescope
A Large liquid mirror telescope or (Large LMT) is a technology being pursued by NASA and the University of British Columbia (UBC).
The idea of using a rotating liquid to create a perfect paraboloid was originally proposed by Sir Isaac Newton, but the very stringent requirements, in particular on the speed of rotation and leveling, prevented any serious attempt to build a prototype before the second part of the 19th century.
Modern LMT research began with a 1982 paper by Ermanno Borra. Over several years, the technology was developed successfully to produce a 1.5m diffraction-limited LMT. Then a collaboration began between Paul Hickson at UBC and Borra. Hickson designed the 3m-class LMs, and built several 3m-class LMs for UBC, NASA, and UCLA. Hickson and collaborators are now building the 6m LZT located at the UBC Liquid-Mirror Observatory.
ILMT
Category:Telescopes
Southern African Large Telescope
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) will be an 11 metre (36 feet) diameter optical telescope, located in the semi-desert region of the Karoo, in South Africa. It will be a facility of the South African Astronomical Observatory, the national optical observatory of South Africa.
SALT will be the biggest telescope in the southern hemisphere. It will enable photography and analysis of the radiation from astronomical objects out of reach of northern hemisphere telescopes. The telescope is projected to be completed in November 2005 at a cost of roughly $30 million USD. Germany, Poland, the United States, the United Kingdom and New Zealand are partners in the project.
General information
SALT will be built on a hilltop in a nature reserve, 370 km (230 miles) northeast of Cape Town, near the small town of Sutherland. In March 2004, installation of the massive mirror began. It will be filled with 91 smaller mirrored hexagons.
Korea and Japan have telescopes at the site and South Africa has at least five optical telescopes there. The University of Birmingham has a solar telescope to help monitor the Sun around the clock.
SALT will probe quasars and enable scientists to view stars and galaxies a billion times too faint to be seen by the naked eye.
Partners
The National Research Foundation of South Africa
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Board
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dartmouth College
Carnegie Mellon University
United Kingdom SALT Consortium (UKSC), comprising:
* Armagh Observatory
* Keele University
* University of Central Lancashire
* University of Nottingham
* Open University
* University of Southampton
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