Overwhelmingly Large Telescope
(OWL)
(100 m telescope plan)
The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL)
was a 2006 European Southern Observatory (ESO) concept/study regarding a
possible 100 meter adaptive optics reflector telescope,
i.e., like Keck Observatory but with 3048 1.6-meter segments.
The conceived location was the Canary Islands.
The ESO chose to focus on the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) instead.
(telescope,reflector,plan,ground,Canary Islands,ESO,ELT,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope
http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/eelt/owl/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000Msngr.100....1G/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006IAUS..232...25C/abstract
Referenced by pages:
extremely large telescope (ELT)
Orbiting Wide-angle Light Collectors (OWL)
segmented mirror
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