The new ground-based optical telescopes

Buddy Martin, John M. Hill, Roger Angel

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Abstract

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 languageEnglish (US)
Pages22-30
Number of pages9
Volume44
No3
Specialist publicationPhysics Today
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1976

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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