Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) was a conceptual design by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) organisation for an extremely large telescope...
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into ongoing extremely large telescopes. GSMT: Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope, merged into TMT OWL: Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, passed over in favor...
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feasibility study concluded the proposed 100 m (328 ft) diameter, Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, would cost €1.5 billion (£1 billion), and be too complex. Both...
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The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is an astronomical facility operated since 1998 by the European Southern Observatory, located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama...
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Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), a 40-metre-class telescope based on a five-mirror design and the formerly planned Overwhelmingly Large Telescope. The ELT...
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Observational astronomy (section Telescopes)
telescopes: the Thirty Metre Telescope [1], and the 100 m diameter Overwhelmingly Large Telescope. Amateur astronomers use such instruments as the Newtonian reflector...
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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the...
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. As the largest telescope in space, it is equipped with...
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communications Orthotopic liver transplant, in medicine Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope Other uses: Orangutan Land Trust, a UK charity...
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Owl Nebula, in the constellation Ursa Major Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope Object Windows Library, a C++ object-oriented...
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A robotic telescope is an astronomical telescope and detector system that makes observations without the intervention of a human. In astronomical disciplines...
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Observatory to be located in Cerro Pachón Observatory (El Peñón). Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (planned but not yet initiated). Potential sites in Chile were...
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atmosphere OWL – (telescope) OverWhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed telescope with a primary mirror with a width of 100 m P60 – (telescope) Palomar 60-inch...
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Kitt Peak National Observatory (redirect from Radio telescope at Kitt Peak)
1958. It is home to what was the largest solar telescope in the world, and many large astronomical telescopes of the late 20th century in the United States...
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have apparent magnitudes of 12–14 that are observable with amateur telescopes larger than 20 cm. The central region is dominated by two supergiant elliptical...
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Xanadu, a large, reflective equatorial area about the size of Australia. It was first identified in infrared images from the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994...
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chemical reaction. During hydrostatic burning these fuels synthesize overwhelmingly the alpha nuclides (A = 2Z), nuclei composed of integer numbers of helium-4...
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purchased overseas and indigenous products, Israel also operates and maintains large stockpiles of Soviet-made equipment, captured from Arab armies over the...
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in a Newtonian telescope. There, the star provides an almost ideal point source at infinity, and the secondary mirror of the telescope constitutes the...
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closest approach in October 2011 the comet was undetected even by large ground-based telescopes. On September 21, 2012, Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok...
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transition can cause that transition. However, the large distances between the quasars and the telescopes which detect them mean that the expansion of the...
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(Hubble Space Telescope, 2016) at about z≈11.1 (about 400 million years cosmic time). Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, launched December...
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horizon direct scattering of sunlight (Rayleigh scattering) is the overwhelmingly dominant source of light. In twilight, the period of time between sunset...
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observed in 2003 by three of the Very Large Telescopes at Paranal, Chile, when Halley's magnitude was 28.2. The telescopes observed Halley, at the faintest...
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Spaceship Earth The introduction to Stepanova et al. (2019) begins, "The overwhelmingly beautiful sight of our Earth triggers a profound emotional response...
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called "Spectra of Bright Stars Photographed with the 11 inch Draper Telescope as Part of the Henry Draper Memorial", which included 4,800 photographs...
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colleges, answerable to the citizens in their areas. Ford County voted overwhelmingly to assume responsibility for the college, and in the fall of 1965, the...
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sent back to random destinations. This effect can be used by network telescopes as indirect evidence of such attacks. The term backscatter analysis refers...
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designed by Watson, and an interference investigation was ordered by Telescope Carts, Inc. alleging infringement of the patent in 1948. After a protracted...
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Stock (firearms) (redirect from Telescoping stock)
civilian-derived versions and some machine pistols. A collapsible (or telescoping) stock makes the weapon shorter and more compact for storage, carrying...
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