Very large ground-based telescopes for optical and IR astronomy

J. R.P. Angel

doi:10.1038/295651a0

Very large ground-based telescopes for optical and IR astronomy

J. R.P. Angel

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Optical and IR astronomers are taking a hard look at their ground-based facilities and devising new ways of making more economic, bigger and better telescopes. Features of instruments of the 15-m class are likely to include servo control to compensate for atmospheric wavefront errors as well as structural deformation, large honeycomb mirror blanks and mirror surfaces produced by economical techniques developed for aspherics.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	651-657
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nature
Volume	295
Issue number	5851
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/295651a0
State	Published - 1982

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