And I always thought the Kecks, at 10 meters, were big. Now I see that Europe is about to break ground on a 39 meter! http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann13099/ Funny that they're calling it the ELT. To them that means Extremely Large Telescope, but to aviators it means Emergency Locator Transmitter. :) patrick
Maybe it will act as an Emergency Locator Transmitter, for the ET's who end up lost in the Solar System by mistake.....;) On Dec 11, 2013, at 12:17 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net> wrote:
And I always thought the Kecks, at 10 meters, were big.
Now I see that Europe is about to break ground on a 39 meter!
http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann13099/
Funny that they're calling it the ELT. To them that means Extremely Large Telescope, but to aviators it means Emergency Locator Transmitter. :)
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IIRC, the plans were originally for a 100-meter telescope, but they discovered they couldn't afford it. That acronym was to be the OWL Telescope, for OverWhelmingly Large Telescope. On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net>wrote:
And I always thought the Kecks, at 10 meters, were big.
Now I see that Europe is about to break ground on a 39 meter!
http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann13099/
Funny that they're calling it the ELT. To them that means Extremely Large Telescope, but to aviators it means Emergency Locator Transmitter. :)
I like this artist's conception - puts 39 m in perspective: http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/elt_vlt.jpg Dion On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 12:19 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net> wrote: And I always thought the Kecks, at 10 meters, were big. Now I see that Europe is about to break ground on a 39 meter! http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann13099/ Funny that they're calling it the ELT. To them that means Extremely Large Telescope, but to aviators it means Emergency Locator Transmitter. :) patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
What's the small black one, Dion? ________________________________ From: Dion Davidson <diondavidson@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 6:21 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] That's a big scope I like this artist's conception - puts 39 m in perspective: http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/elt_vlt.jpg Dion On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 12:19 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net> wrote: And I always thought the Kecks, at 10 meters, were big. Now I see that Europe is about to break ground on a 39 meter! http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann13099/ Funny that they're calling it the ELT. To them that means Extremely Large Telescope, but to aviators it means Emergency Locator Transmitter. :) patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options". _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
The "small" black one is the existing VLT (for very large telescope) http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/vlt/ Dion On Thursday, December 12, 2013 2:45 PM, M Wilson <astro_outwest@yahoo.com> wrote: What's the small black one, Dion? ________________________________ From: Dion Davidson <diondavidson@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 6:21 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] That's a big scope I like this artist's conception - puts 39 m in perspective: http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/elt_vlt.jpg Dion On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 12:19 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net> wrote: And I always thought the Kecks, at 10 meters, were big. Now I see that Europe is about to break ground on a 39 meter! http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann13099/ Funny that they're calling it the ELT. To them that means Extremely Large Telescope, but to aviators it means Emergency Locator Transmitter. :) patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options". _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options". _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
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