Extremely Large Telescope - A Home For The E-ELT
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- / sciencereason ...ESOcast 16: E-ELT Site Chosen.
On 26 April 2010, the ESO Council selected Cerro Armazones as the site for the planned 42-metre European Extremely Large Telescope. Cerro Armazones is an isolated mountain at 3060 metres altitude in the central part of Chile's Atacama Desert, some 130 kilometres south of the town of Antofagasta and about 20 kilometres away from Cerro Paranal, home of ESOs Very Large Telescope.
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"This is an important milestone that allows us to finalise the baseline design of this very ambitious project, which will vastly advance astronomical knowledge," says Tim de Zeeuw, ESOs Director General. "I thank the site selection team for the tremendous work they have done over the past few years."
ESOs next step is to build a European extremely large optical/infrared telescope (E-ELT) with a primary mirror 42 metres in diameter. The E-ELT will be "the worlds biggest eye on the sky" - the only such telescope in the world. ESO is drawing up detailed construction plans together with the community. The E-ELT will address many of the most pressing unsolved questions in astronomy, and may, eventually, revolutionise our perception of the Universe, much as Galileo's telescope did 400 years ago. The final go-ahead for construction is expected at the end of 2010, with the start of operations planned for 2018.
The decision on the E-ELT site was taken by the ESO Council, which is the governing body of the Organisation composed of representatives of ESOs fourteen Member States, and is based on an extensive comparative meteorological investigation, which lasted several years. The majority of the data collected during the site selection campaigns will be made public in the course of the year 2010.
www.eso.org/public/news/eso1018/
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I notice a lot of comments complaining about the name, at least this one isn't as bad as the OWL: OverWhelmingly Large telescope. It was supposed to have a 100 meter mirror, but they cut it back, I don't know to what. Imagine what this thing will be able to see, it should be amazing.
@scottohscott
The technology is not the surprising part, but rather the manufacturing capacity.
This is probably one of those things where you have to custom design the tools and equipment used in the manufacturing process.
And Kudos to all of the scientists and such for doing all of the survey work on foot!!
Congratulations to everybody involved in this complex and grand scientific project. Hopefully many questions will be answered in the next decade when this instrument start doing science. Albert Einstein should be proud of you!
@bv90andy i was well aware of that. i was referencing the fact that the diameter of the mirror is going to be 42 meters! although in retrospect, i wish i had said "maybe this telescope will find the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything, so that the universe will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizzare!"
Oh god 2018, thats in such a long time :(
@MrVuHNguyen You are missing the point. 42 is a reference to a classic movie called "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy". In the movie, a super computer was asked the ultimate question. What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? After many many years the computer finally calculated the answer.... 42
Coming 2018. Cant wait to see the surface of exo planets thanks to this thing!
@picabloo thank you, I think I read that too but forgot.
What is the length and width of the telescope that forces answers where the sun doesn't shine?
Imagine one of these floating up in space
@bv90andy Isn't it a funny coincidence that the answer to life, universe and everything is the same figure as the diameter of this new telescope?
@scottohscott I'm sure they don't use glass in the construction.
@pacman529
Oh, you wicked wit! Adams would be proud. ;-)
Respond to this video... The telescope is 42 meters long? I think 42 meters refer to the diameter of the surface of the primary mirror.
@D34dFilms Me too :)
@vashcat planned completion is 2018
Who is in charge of acronyms at ESO?
42 meters!!
How about calling it the 1BFT?
@bv90andy Ah, but the real question is, "What is the question?"
42 meters?! well, if that telescope does not discover the answer to life, the universe, and everything, then i don't know what will!
@scottohscott Mirror, not lens.
42 meters wide, its not how long it is its the paerture actually.
can it see into planets in other solar system?
I find it funny that this telescope is suppose to discover what else is out there, life, the universe and everything else, just happens to be 42 meters long lol
@nishbrown nah that's the next one
@LechuCzechu LOL! :>
I got a ELD ^^
Very cool, but what a name. Maybe you could get McDonald's to sponsor the next one, and you could call it the "E-SSM Super sized McTelescope.". ;o)
Is this more powerful than The James Webb Space Telescope?
Shouldn't it be the Chilean-ELT then?
whats next? the very extremely large telescope?
42m eh? No wonder they called it "extremely large".
The answer to everything is 42
how about moon-scope that would be cool , we have the technology to put one on the moon we could control it from earth .
What acronyms will they use once they go past 200m plus telescopes. Maybe they can start with BMAT, Big Motha Farken Ass Telescope and go on from there.
I got a ELD ^^ (First 2 words are Extremely Large) For the dumbs ones ..
Who's to say in 2018 a big Ass cloud will pollute the area of the E-ELT? I think we should stick to guessing up stories, I mean look how far it's gotten us
BOO THE GUYS USING AN APPLE
The Biggest telescope in the world Costing something like a billion euro.
If you think that is too much.
A submarine Costs like a billion Euro. My country Greece ordered two of those billion euro. Subs.
That's how much Planet earth spends on Science.
And if that's not enough..
A carrier costs as much as LHC
A carrier protects your $ subsidiset ass. A telescope does noting for you. You should complain about the olympics or gambling industry.
nehorlavazapalka war is an industry as well.
those aircraft carriers are cheap, the new class of carries has lowered per life-time running cost by 4 Bn $. Furthermore, 11 is too few. It keeps the waters safe and stops other countries even from thinking about their navy. It keeps engineers employed, don't kid yourself. The money would either stolen or poured into methheads via welfare. 5 % of your budget is about right, not too much.
@canuzzi USA is broke, so they are losing the edge in many fields including science. They are going to cut the science budget, so i think that more and more, the greatest scientific research will be done in other parts of the world, like we are seeing today.
Smart people think about seince,stupid people think about war. You are?
@dietermauer Scientific colonialism?