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| x William Herschel Telescope |
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The William Herschel Telescope or WHT was first conceived in the late 1960s, when the Anglo-Australian Observatory was being designed. The British astronomical community saw the need for telescopes of comparable power in the Northern Hemisphere....
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| x Lovell Telescope |
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The Lovell Telescope is a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey, Cheshire in the north-west of England. When it was constructed in the mid 1950s, the telescope was the largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world at 76.2...
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| x Spitzer Space Telescope |
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The Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, SIRTF) is an infrared space observatory launched in 2003. It is the fourth and final of NASA's Great Observatories.
The planned nominal mission period was to be 2.5 years...
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| x Slooh |
Slooh is a robotic telescope service that can be viewed live through a web browser with Flash plug-in. It was not the first robotic telescope, but it was the first that offered "live" viewing through a telescope via the web. Other online telescopes...
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SuperWASP consists of two robotic observatories that operate continuously all year around, allowing it to cover both hemispheres of the sky. The first, SuperWASP-North is located on the island of La Palma amongst the Isaac Newton Group of...
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| x Keck Interferometer |
The Keck Interferometer is a two-telescope astronomical interferometer. It forms part of NASA's overall effort to find planets and ultimately life beyond our solar system. It combines the light from the twin Keck telescope to measure the emission...
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| x Hubble Space Telescope |
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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by the space shuttle in April 1990. It is named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Although not the first space telescope, Hubble is one of the largest and...
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| x TEST | Yes |
The Tautenburg Exoplanet Search Telescope (TEST) is a robotic telescope system. The telescope uses a folded Schmidt Camera with a 300mm main mirror. The focal length is 940mm and it gives a 2.2 square degree field of view. Dome, mount, and CCD...
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| x James Webb Space Telescope |
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a planned infrared space observatory, the partial successor to the aging Hubble Space Telescope. The JWST will not be a complete successor, because it will not be sensitive to all of the light wavelengths...
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| x Terrestrial Planet Finder |
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The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) is a proposed project by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States for a telescope system which is intended to detect extrasolar terrestrial planets.
In May 2002, NASA chose two TPF...
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| x Kepler Mission |
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The Kepler Mission uses a NASA space telescope designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. With a planned mission lifetime of at least 3.5 years, Kepler will use a photometer developed by NASA to continuously monitor the brightness...
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| x Space Interferometry Mission |
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The Space Interferometry Mission, also known as SIM Lite (formerly known as SIM PlanetQuest), is a planned space telescope being developed by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in conjunction with contractor Northrop...
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| x Allen Telescope Array |
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The Allen Telescope Array (ATA), formerly known as the One Hectare Telescope (1hT), is a joint effort by the SETI Institute and the Radio Astronomy Laboratory (RAL) at the University of California, Berkeley to construct a radio interferometer that...
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| x Hobby-Eberly Telescope |
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The Hobby-Eberly Telescope is a 9.2-meter (30-foot) aperture telescope located at the McDonald Observatory. It combines a number of features that differentiate it from most telescope designs, resulting in greatly lowered construction costs. For...
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| x Very Large Array |
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The Very Large Array (VLA) is a radio astronomy observatory located on the Plains of San Augustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, some fifty miles (80 km) west of Socorro, New Mexico, USA. U.S. Route 60 passes through the complex, which...
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| x Giant Magellan Telescope |
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The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is a ground-based telescope planned for completion in 2018. It will consist of seven 8.4 m (27.6 ft) diameter primary segments, with the resolving power of a 24.5 m (80.4 ft) primary mirror and collecting area...
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| x Extremely Large Telescope | Yes |
The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is an extremely large telescope design proposed for the next-generation European Southern Observatory optical telescope with a diameter aperture of 42 metres (140 ft) with a filled aperture mirror with...
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| x Green Bank Telescope |
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The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) is the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope and the world's largest land-based movable structure. It is part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) site at Green Bank, West...
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| x Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer |
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Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a NASA-funded infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on 14 December 2009 14:09:33 UTC (06:09:33 PST). The Earth-orbiting satellite carries a...
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| x Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-filter imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a dedicated 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico. The project was named after the Alfred P. Sloan...
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| x Corot |
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COROT (COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits) is a space mission led by the French Space Agency (CNES) in conjunction with the European Space Agency (ESA) and other international partners. The mission's two objectives are to search for...
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| x High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher | Yes |
The High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) is a high-precision echelle spectrograph installed in 2002 on ESO's 3.6m telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile. The first light was achieved in February 2003. It is a second-generation...
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| x La Silla Observatory |
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La Silla Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Chile with eighteen telescopes. Nine of these telescopes were built by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) organisation, and several of the others are partly maintained by ESO. The...
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| x Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy |
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The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is a joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for the construction and maintenance of an airborne telescope. Universities Space Research Association (USRA) was awarded...
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