The future of ELTs (Extremely Large Telescopes): A very personal view

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5382, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 763-770

  Mountain, Matt ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SOLAR TELESCOPES (ATST); EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA); GIANT SEGMENTED MIRROR TELESCOPE (GSMT); LARGE SYNOPTIC SURVEY TELESCOPES (LSST); VERY LARGE TELESCOPES (VLT);

TELESCOPES;

EID: 5444244408     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.566392     Document Type: Conference Paper

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