yajvan
06 December 2007, 09:35 PM
Hari Om
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Namaste,
for those that like to look up... This is Arizona's Large Binocular telescope.
http://medusa.as.arizona.edu/lbto/images/2006.jpg (http://medusa.as.arizona.edu/lbto/2006.htm)
http://medusa.as.arizona.edu/lbto/observatory_images.htm
Twin mirrors - each are 8.4 meters or 27.5 ft in diameter. This gives them leverage - as if to have a telescope of 22.8 meters or 74 ft. aperture.
Each mirror is ~ 16 to 18 metric tons.
Very impressive... I have binoculars that are 7X power and a telescope that I may get 50X to 100X power in magnification. Yet its the light gathering that makes a telescope valuable. This unit with a ~74 ft. effective aperture has roughly 5000X image magnification.
[ I gotta get me one of these ]
pranams,
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Namaste,
for those that like to look up... This is Arizona's Large Binocular telescope.
http://medusa.as.arizona.edu/lbto/images/2006.jpg (http://medusa.as.arizona.edu/lbto/2006.htm)
http://medusa.as.arizona.edu/lbto/observatory_images.htm
Twin mirrors - each are 8.4 meters or 27.5 ft in diameter. This gives them leverage - as if to have a telescope of 22.8 meters or 74 ft. aperture.
Each mirror is ~ 16 to 18 metric tons.
Very impressive... I have binoculars that are 7X power and a telescope that I may get 50X to 100X power in magnification. Yet its the light gathering that makes a telescope valuable. This unit with a ~74 ft. effective aperture has roughly 5000X image magnification.
[ I gotta get me one of these ]
pranams,