The new ground-based optical telescopes

Buddy Martin; John M. Hill; Roger Angel

doi:10.1063/1.881281

The new ground-based optical telescopes

Buddy Martin, John M. Hill, Roger Angel

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The next round of advances in ground-bosed optical and infrared astronomy can only be made with larger telescopes or arrays of telescopes. New mirror designs make possible telescopes much larger than any in existence.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	22-30
Number of pages	9
Volume	44
No	3
Specialist publication	Physics Today
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881281
State	Published - Mar 1976

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