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Home / Science / Astronomy / Observatories / Optical and Infrared / Large Telescopes
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- Gemini Observatory - The Gemini Project is an international partnership that will result in two 8. 1-meter telescopes (each telescope has a main mirror over 26 feet across. ) one telescope is located on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, and the other on Chile's Cerro Pachón.
www.gemini.edu/public
- Keck Observatory - Mauna Kea, Big Island, Hawaii.
www2.keck.hawaii.edu:3636
- Large Telescopes - index of the world's largest ground-based optical telescopes
www.seds.org/billa/bigeyes.html
- MMT Observatory - Multiple Mirror Telescope
sculptor.as.arizona.edu/foltz/www/mmt.html
- Palomar Observatory - The first 200-inch ever built is alive and well in California.
astro.caltech.edu/observatories/palomar
- Subaru Telescope Homepage - The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
www.naoj.org
- Very Large Telescope (VLT) - Paranal Observatory - Situated at the top of Cerro Paranal, Chile.
www.eso.org/paranal
- Very Large Telescope (VLT) Project - The ESO Very Large Telescope will consist of four 8-meter telescopes which can work independently or in combined mode. In this latter mode the VLT provides the total light collecting power of a 16-meter single telescope, making it the largest optical telescope in the world.
www.eso.org/projects/vlt
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