5350 x 3973 px | 45,3 x 33,6 cm | 17,8 x 13,2 inches | 300dpi
Ubicazione:
Graham, Arizona
Altre informazioni:
When the LBT is fully operational it will be the world s most technologically advanced optical telescope creating images in the near infrared expected to be nearly 10 times sharper than images from the Hubble Space Telescope The final configuration will be a telescope with two 8 4 meter mirrors mounted on a common base hence the name binocular taking full advantage of the active and adaptive optics provided by Arcetri Observatory The collecting area will be equivalent to an 11 9 meter circular aperture greater than any other single telescope Also an interferometric mode will be available with a maximum baseline of 22 8 meters for aperture synthesis imaging observations and a baseline of 15 meters for nulling interferometry Southern Arizona s highest mountain has become an open air laboratory for culture ecology forest fire research and astronomy
