Telescopios Terrestres
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Hobby-Eberly Telescope Upgrade - HETDEX
The HETDEX project has two critical technological requirements. One is a set of instruments that can quickly gather and analyze the light from many distant galaxies at once. The other is a giant telescope that can see far into the universe, providing good views of galaxies that existed when the universe was only a few billion years old. The first requirement is met by VIRUS, a set of about 150 spectrographs. The second is met by the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET), the third-largest optical telescope in the world.
The Very Large Telescope
The Very Large Telescope array (VLT) is the flagship facility for European ground-based astronomy at the beginning of the third Millennium. It is the world's most advanced optical instrument, consisting of four Unit Telescopes with main mirrors of 8.2m diameter and four movable 1.8m diameter Auxiliary Telescopes.
Photos of Subaru Telescope and Enclosure Subaru's Four Foci Subaru Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam) High Dispersion Spectrograph (HDS) OH-Airglow Suppressor/Cooled Infrared Spectrograph and Camera for OHS (OHS / CISCO)
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Gran Telescopio CANARIAS - Inicio
El Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) es un telescopio de espejo primario segmentado de 10,4 metros de diámetro instalado en uno de los mejores lugares del hemisferio norte: el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (La Palma, Islas Canarias). Este telescopio es una iniciativa española, liderada por el IAC (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias) con el decidido apoyo de la Administración del Estado y la Comunidad Autónoma Canaria , a través de los Fondos Europeos de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) de la Comunidad Europea, y la participación de México, a través del IA-UNAM (Instituto de Astronomía de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico) e INAOE (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica), y Estados Unidos, a través de la Universidad de Florida .
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is the largest single optical telescope in the southern hemisphere and among the largest 5 or so in the world.
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THE OBSERVATORY | W. M. Keck Observatory
From the summit of Hawaii’s dormant Mauna Kea volcano, astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory probe the local and distant Universe with unprecedented power and precision. Their instruments are the twin Keck telescopes—the world’s largest optical and infrared telescopes. Each telescope stands eight stories tall, weighs 300 tons and operates with nanometer precision.