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    world-leading telescope to have a parabolic primary mirror. The 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, Canary Islands...
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  • or lunar ejecta. However, visible spectroscopy obtained with the Gran Telescopio Canarias shows that it is an asteroid. The closest approach to Earth in...
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    Keck Observatory, Gran Telescopio Canarias, Gemini Observatory, New Technology Telescope, William Herschel Telescope, UK Schmidt Telescope and LAMOST include...
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    in Mexico was the construction of the Large Millimeter Telescope (Gran Telescopio Milimétrico, GMT), the world's largest and most sensitive single-aperture...
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    Observatory’s Very Large Telescope and Extremely Large Telescope in Chile, Gran Telescopio Canarias in Spain, Keck I and II telescopes at the W.M. Keck Observatory...
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    based roof prism binoculars. Most roof prism binoculars use either the Schmidt–Pechan prism (invented in 1899) or the Abbe–Koenig prism (named after Ernst...
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  • hexagonal primary mirror of 11.1 by 9.8 meters. 2007 – First light at Gran Telescopio de Canarias (GTC), in Spain, the largest optical telescope in the world...
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    A mid-20th century innovation was catadioptric telescopes such as the Schmidt camera, which use both a spherical mirror and a lens (called a corrector...
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  • A #2 Z18 Gran Telescopio Canarias (GranTeCan or GTC; Great Canary Telescope), at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory CN Gran Telescopio Canarias, Roque...
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    Overall Aperture) Name Aperture Type Built by Location Year Meter Inch Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) 10.4 m 409" Reflector – Segmented, 36 Spain (90%), Mexico...
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    the 10-m Keck Telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory and the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in October 2013 revealed...
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    Earth". Scientific American. Roy, Subrata; Arnold, David; Lin, Jenshan; Schmidt, Tony; Lind, Rick; et al. (20 December 2011). Air Force Office of Scientific...
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    single massive WR star or binary system. In 2022 astronomers from the Gran Telescopio Canarias reported the first supernova explosion of a Wolf–Rayet star....
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    Blanco was director of CTIO until 1981, when he was succeeded by Osmer. Telescopio Víctor M. Blanco En reconocimiento a los años de destacada labor y servicio...
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    astronomical observatories "INAOE - Astrofísica - Observatorios - OAGH - Telescopios". INAOE - Astrofísica. Retrieved 2012-01-07. "INAOE - Astrofísica - Observatorios...
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  • gov. Retrieved 5 March 2012. "Observatorio de Calar Alto: telescopio de 1,5 metros". Telescopios.org. Archived from the original on 24 June 2009. Retrieved...
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    Astronomía y Astrofísica. 44: 231–242. Bibcode:2008RMxAA..44..231B. Telescopios "Telescopios de 2.1 metros". Instituto de Astronomía de la Universidad Nacional...
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    GLORIA project - about gloria-project-eu, retrieved January 12, 2014. Telescopio chileno capta su primera supernova Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback...
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    2013, follow-up observations of P/2013 R3, taken with the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias on the island of La Palma, showed that this comet was breaking...
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    original on 2012-02-10. Retrieved 2012-03-05. "Observatorio de Calar Alto: Telescopio de 1,5 metros". Archived from the original on 2009-06-24. Retrieved 2009-08-03...
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  • fluxes used to calibrate the Guide Star Catalog GTC – (telescope) Gran Telescopio Canarias, the 10.4 m reflecting telescope on the island of La Palma, Canary...
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  • site in Arizona. The Curtis Schmidt telescope that was used for the southern all-sky survey was a twin to the Burrell Schmidt used in the northern survey...
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