The last SF Instituters just left, and I'm winding down by catching up on my astro-news. I found a cool story about a huge telescope going into operation. This monster, perhaps the largest optical telescope in the world at 34 FEET in diameter, is now seeing its first light. Below is a photo of the observatory on a volcanic Spanish mountaintop:
Click the image to see the story.
Note that this will soon be a teeny little thing compared to the Very Large Telescope in Chile, composed of four separate mirrors (those would be VLTs 1-4, each more than 30 FEET in diameter) that will soon work as one 650-FOOT Ginormo-Scope. Just wow.
On a related note, here's a list of the world's largest optical telescopes.
Best,
Chris
Click the image to see the story.
Note that this will soon be a teeny little thing compared to the Very Large Telescope in Chile, composed of four separate mirrors (those would be VLTs 1-4, each more than 30 FEET in diameter) that will soon work as one 650-FOOT Ginormo-Scope. Just wow.
On a related note, here's a list of the world's largest optical telescopes.
Best,
Chris
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- 10 Feb 2019, 20:41I think I saw one of the other layers of this somewhere else.
- 1 Feb 2019, 19:33heh
- 19 Dec 2018, 21:39Thanks so much! I hope you enjoy it.
- 19 Dec 2018, 21:37So much yes to all of this post. I'm going to check out the story when I get home.
- 6 May 2018, 22:00Thanks! I appreciate the comment. Now that I think of it, maybe I ought to do another tune-up...
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Here, I'll make a new post about this. Done!
So, is there really very little risk to building a large telescope on a volcanic mountaintop?