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Giant telescopes coming

Laurie Street — 4/26/2006 9:04:20 PM (archived)

Described in the latest Scientific American. 50 meter diameter single mirrors! The science from these monsters will be amazing. Brief discussion of the use of lasers, RL - cool technique.

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Giant telescopes coming - Laurie Street - 4/26/2006 9:04:20 PM
- The laser techniques are the greatest thing for ground based astronomy since adaptive optics.... - R.L. - 4/26/2006 9:45:11 PM
  - Megascopes in February issue of Discover magazine - ljk - 4/27/2006 2:44:59 PM
    - re: Megascopes - Raoul - 4/27/2006 7:58:52 PM
      - re: Megascopes - Laurie Street - 4/27/2006 9:23:49 PM
        
        Constraining the Adaptive Optics Point-Spread Function in Crowded Fields: Measuring Photometric Aperture Corrections - ljk - 4/28/2006 3:06:45 PM

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