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The Astounding Engineering Behind The World's Largest Optical Telescope
3 Nov 2017
https://www.wired.com/story/the-astounding-engineering-behind-the-giant-magellan-telescope/
The seven giant mirrors are cast at the University of Arizonas Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory, the facility known for creating the worlds largest mirrors for astronomy.
Another impressive telescope:
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) - 3.2 billion pixel camera
https://www.lsst.org/
[video=youtube;niwBQrnbNpQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niwBQrnbNpQ[/video]
3 Nov 2017
https://www.wired.com/story/the-astounding-engineering-behind-the-giant-magellan-telescope/
The seven giant mirrors are cast at the University of Arizonas Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory, the facility known for creating the worlds largest mirrors for astronomy.
Another impressive telescope:
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) - 3.2 billion pixel camera
https://www.lsst.org/
[video=youtube;niwBQrnbNpQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niwBQrnbNpQ[/video]
