Showing posts with label thirty meter telescope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thirty meter telescope. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Pics from last weekend's TMT event at Palomar

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Last Saturday at Palomar we had a talk by TMT scientist Tony Travouillon on the process of choosing the site for the Thirty Meter Telescope...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Talk on the Thirty Meter Telescope at Palomar in June

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Saturday, June 5 - Quest for the Best: Astronomy's Window on the Universe Location may be important in real estate, but it's essen...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

TMT Goes to Hawai'i

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It was announced yesterday that the Thirty Meter Telescope 's board of directors has selected Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawai'i...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Giant Telescopes in 3D

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Todd Mason, of The Journey to Palomar fame, is at it again. A while ago I told you that on his new website , he has wonderful visualization...
Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Visualizing the Future of Big Telescopes

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You may remember Todd Mason from The Journey to Palomar . He and his wife Robin were the filmmakers who brought the career of George Ellery ...
Friday, October 3, 2008

The Birth of Palomar's 'Giant Eye'

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Today Wired.com's This Day in Tech features the Hale Telescope's 200-inch mirror . There are a couple of mistakes in the story (the...
Friday, May 16, 2008

And Then There Were Two

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The Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) is one step closer to reality. After years of study, the site selection team has narrowed the search to ju...
Friday, February 29, 2008

Monster Telescopes

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Waiting in the mail yesterday was the April (!) issue of Sky & Telescope magazine . The cover features TMT in an article entitled ...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

In the Shadow of a Giant

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George Ellery Hale died 70 years ago today. From Ronald Florence's The Perfect Machine : A few days prior to his death he felt well eno...