This is a list of Telescopes and astronomocial tools used in exoplanet research. The list includes spectographs, and satellites that carry telescopes that contribute to exoplanet research.
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| x Large Binocular Telescope |
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Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) is an optical telescope for astronomy located on Mount Graham (10,700-foot (3,300 m)) in the Pinaleno Mountains of southeastern Arizona, and is a part of the Mount Graham International Observatory. The LBT is...
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| x Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite | Yes | ||
| x Very Large Telescope |
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The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is a telescope operated by the European Southern Observatory on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. The VLT consists of four individual telescopes, each with a primary mirror 8.2m across, which are...
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| x Thirty meter telescope |
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The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is a planned ground-based large segmented mirror reflecting telescope to be built on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The telescope is much larger then existing telescopes, and designed for observations from the near-ultraviolet...
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| x Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy |
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| x High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher |
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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 Corot |
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COROT (French: COnvection ROtation et Transits planétaires; English: 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...
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| x Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer |
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| x Extremely Large Telescope | Yes |
The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is a planned ground-based extremely large telescope for the optical/near-infrared range, to be built by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on a mountain top in Cerro Armazones, Chile. It is a...
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| x Giant Magellan Telescope | Yes |
The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is a ground-based extremely large telescope planned for completion in 2020. 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...
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| x Space Interferometry Mission |
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| x Kepler Spacecraft |
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The Kepler spacecraft is an American space observatory, the space-based portion of NASA's Kepler Mission to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. The spacecraft, named in honor of the 17th-century German astronomer Johannes Kepler, was...
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| x Terrestrial Planet Finder |
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The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) was a proposed project by NASA to construct a system of telescopes for detecting extrasolar terrestrial planets. TPF was postponed several times and finally cancelled. There were actually two telescope systems...
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| x James Webb Space Telescope |
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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 Hubble Space Telescope |
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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a Space Shuttle in 1990 and remains in operation. A 2.4-meter (7.9 ft) aperture telescope in low Earth orbit, Hubble's four main instruments observe in the near...
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| x Keck Interferometer |
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| x Spitzer Space Telescope |
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The Spitzer Space Telescope (SST), formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is an infrared space observatory launched in 2003. It is the fourth and final of the NASA Great Observatories program.
The planned mission period was to be 2.5...
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