News: Astronomers plan giant telescope

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 02:46:04 GMT, "Alan French"
wrote:

"John Honan" wrote in message
...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3203963.stm
US scientists have drawn up plans to build the largest telescope ever
seen.

Its 30-metre-diameter mirror would be almost 10 times as big as those in
the
Keck telescopes in Hawaii, currently the world's largest observatories.

A gentleman gave a talk on this at our club meeting last night. Quite a
project, but some folks are thinking even bigger - check out the
Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL)....
http://www.eso.org/projects/owl/

Isn't the next one up to be called FORL? Not sure what the 'F' stands
for but the "ORL" stands for "OutRageously Large" ;-)
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Pete
Homepage at http://www.pbl33.co.uk
CCD/digicam astronomy