ESO Extremely Large Telescope
The Extremely Large Telescope is the gigantic 39-m telescope that ESO is building right now on Cerro Armazones in the Chilean Atacama desert close to the Paranal Observatory. Together with […]
Category: Observatories
Gemini Observatory
The Gemini telescopes are twin 8.1-meter telescopes, one located in the southern hemisphere near La Serena in Chile and the other one in the northern hemisphere on Maunakea on the […]
Subaru Telescope
Subaru is the 8.2-meter flagship telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on the Big Island of Hawaii. The name Subaru is Japanese […]
Starfire Optical Range
Starfire Optical Range (SOR), an institution of the US Air Force, is based at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SOR’s mission is to “develop and demonstrate optical […]
ESO Very Large Telescope
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. The VLT consists of four individual telescopes, […]
Keck Observatory
Together with ESO, the W. M. Keck Observatory was involved in the development of the SodiumStar 20/2, providing additional specifications. Thus, in parallel to the deliveries to ESO, already in […]
