I See You
Posted on | March 7, 2008
New telescope to see new things:
“The amount of time and work that was put into this project to reach the point where we are today is immense,” said LBT Director Richard Green. “To see the telescope operational with both mirrors is a great feeling.”
The $120m (£60m) telescope uses two mirrors in tandem to maximise the amount of light it gathers, which allows astronomers to look deep into the Universe.
Using two 8.4 m (27ft) mirrors will give LBT the equivalent light-gathering capacity of a single 11.8m (39ft) instrument and the resolution of a 22.8m (75ft) telescope…
The resolution is 10 times greater than the space-based Hubble telescope, which has a 2.4m (8ft) mirror.
“The images that this telescope will produce will be like none seen before,” said Professor Peter Strittmatter of the University of Arizona.
Cool.
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