First Science from the Large Binocular Telescope

First science from the Large Binocular Telescope

The $120 million LBT is located atop Mount Graham, a 10,700-foot mountain in southeastern Arizona. The team of observers used the LBT’s “left-side” primary mirror and its “blue” camera to capture a detailed image of the afterglow of the gamma ray burst.

It appears they have not used it's Stereoscopic vision as of yet and I still can't wait to see that shot, but this looks like a good first outing for this incredible ground based telescope.

medusa.as.arizona.edu...

Here is the site detailing more information on this telescope.



[edit on 15-3-2007 by sardion2000]

Is it true that (LBT) is better than the Hubble?

Originally posted by Schizoflux
Is it true that (LBT) is better than the Hubble?

I believe that a lot of the new ground based telescopes can out do Hubble now. I know the VLT can. And just quickly reading up on the LBT. It says, when fully operational, it will be the worlds highest resolution telescope and it will be ten times sharper than Hubble. I'm not sure when it will be fully operational, but I can't wait to see what kinds of images it produces.

I don't think orbital and ground-based telescopes are really comparable. Although ground telescopes have had higher resolutions than Hubble for a while, the fact is that the atmosphere attenuates light (more in some wavelengths than in others) and scatters unwanted light from the sun, which means that the Hubble can see darker objects.

You should check out en.wikipedia.org...



medusa.as.arizona.edu...

This telescope has something that hubble doesn't have. Stereoscopic vision!

[edit on 17-3-2007 by sardion2000]

Originally posted by sardion2000
You should check out en.wikipedia.org...



medusa.as.arizona.edu...

This telescope has something that hubble doesn't have. Stereoscopic vision!

[edit on 17-3-2007 by sardion2000]

thats amazing. I set the second pic as my desktop wallpaper.