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Offline sam

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The Extremely Large Telescope
« on: November 24, 2009, 05:15 »
I love the names we come up with for telescopes... there is also OWL - the Overwhelming Large Telescope  8-)

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/11/23/the-extremely-large-telescope/
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Re: The Extremely Large Telescope
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2009, 09:51 »
42 metres!  I remember thedays when 200" was massive! 
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Re: The Extremely Large Telescope
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2009, 09:52 »
That's going to be some piece of engineering, Sam.  :thumbs:
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Re: The Extremely Large Telescope
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2009, 10:35 »
That's quite mind blowing!
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Re: The Extremely Large Telescope
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2009, 10:36 »
indeed, but I'm using a 305m telescope at the moment - just radio not optical - so its much easier to build.
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