Optical Telescopes, Part 2
15 entries in the Optical Telescopes, Part 2 compendium.
William Herschel TelescopeThird largest optical telescope at its 1987 completion.Wisconsin H-Alpha MapperA 0.6 m telescope mapping hydrogen-alpha in the warm ionized medium.3.6m Devasthal Optical TelescopeAsia's largest reflecting telescope, activated in 2016.3.67 m Advanced Electro Optical System TelescopeLargest U.S. optical telescope for satellite tracking.40-foot telescopeWilliam Herschel's 40-foot reflecting telescope, largest for 50 years.Alfred Jensch TelescopeLargest telescope in Germany and largest Schmidt camera worldwide.Anglo-Australian TelescopeA 3.9-metre equatorial telescope at Siding Spring Observatory.ANU 2.3 m TelescopeOptical telescope with thin mirror, altazimuth mount, and co-rotating building.Aristarchos 2.3 m TelescopeLargest telescope in Greece and the Balkans.BTA-6World's largest telescope from 1975 to 1990, pioneering altazimuth mount.C. Donald Shane telescopeSecond-largest optical telescope in the world at its 1959 commissioning.Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope3.58-meter optical/infrared telescope on Mauna Kea since 1979.Crossley telescope36-inch reflector at Lick Observatory, used 1895–2010.Daniel K. Inouye Solar TelescopeWorld's largest solar telescope, observing the Sun in visible to near-infrared.ESO 3.6 m TelescopeOptical reflecting telescope at La Silla, Chile, since 1977.
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