Top Document: [sci.astro] General (Astronomy Frequently Asked Questions) (2/9) Previous Document: B.02 What are the largest telescopes? Next Document: B.04 What is the resolution of a telescope? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge William Keel <keel@bildad.astr.ua.edu>, Steve Willner <swillner@cfa.harvard.edu>, Joseph Lazio <jlazio@patriot.net>, Jennifer Imamura with corrections and additions by many others (These lists are undoubtedly incomplete. Additions and corrections welcome!) A list of astronomical instruments is also at <URL:http://www.futureframe.de/astro/instr/index.html>. Optical/Infrared Telescopes (nighttime): Now actually under construction: 16.4 Very Large Telescope Cerro Paranal, Chile (quartet of 8.2-m telescopes) <URL:http://www.hq.eso.org/projects/vlt/> 11.0 Hobby-Eberly Telescope, Mt. Fowlkes, Texas (spectroscopy only) <URL:http://www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald/het/het.html> <URL:http://www.astro.psu.edu/het/> 8.0 Gemini North Mauna Kea, Hawaii 8.0 Gemini South Cerro Pachon, Chile <URL:http://www.gemini.edu/> 8.2 Subaru (JNLT) Mauna Kea, Hawaii <URL:http://www.naoj.org/> 6.5 MMT Mt. Hopkins, Arizona (replace current six mirrors with single one; see B.01) <URL:http://sculptor.as.arizona.edu/foltz/www/mmt.html> 2.2 SOFIA NASA (included because it will be an airborne observatory) <URL:http://sofia.arc.nasa.gov/> Others likely to start soon: Large Binocular Telescope, (Italy; U. Arizona), pair of 8-m telescopes, Mt. Graham, Arizona <URL:http://lbtwww.arcetri.astro.it/> Canary Islands Large Telescope Canary Islands, Spain, 10 m segmented mirror <URL:http//www.iac.es/10m/uk10m.html> Magellan (Carnegie Institution Observatories), 6.5 m, Las Campanas <URL:http//medusa.as.arizona.edu/mlab/mag.html> Radio telescopes under construction in design stages: Submillimeter Array, (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory), six 8-m dishes at Mauna Kea <URL:http//sma2.harvard.edu/index.html> Millimeter Array (MMA) (NRAO) <URL:http//www.mma.nrao.edu/ Green Bank Telescope (NRAO) <URL:http//www.gb.nrao.edu/GBT/GBT.html> X-ray: Astro-E (ISAS) <URL:http//www.astro.isas.ac.jp/xray/mission/astroe/> High-Throughput X-Ray Spectroscopy Mission (ESA) <URL:http//astro.estec.esa.nl/XMM/xmm.html> Gamma-ray: INTEGRAL (ESA) <URL: http://astro.estec.esa.nl/SA-general/Projects/Integral/integral.html > Neutrino: Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) <URL:http//amanda.berkeley.edu/> Deep Undersea Muon and Neutrino Detection (DUMAND) <URL:http//www.phys.washington.edu/~dumand/> Gravitational Waves: LIGO, (US), 4 km path <URL:http//www.ligo.caltech.edu/> Virgo, (Italy), 3 km path <URL:http//www.pi.infn.it/virgo/> User Contributions:Top Document: [sci.astro] General (Astronomy Frequently Asked Questions) (2/9) Previous Document: B.02 What are the largest telescopes? Next Document: B.04 What is the resolution of a telescope? Part0 - Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Part8 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: jlazio@patriot.net
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