ground-based matching Hubble power

Where are some of the ground-based telescope complexes that are beginning to
match Hubble's resolution and light gathering, especially in the visible
bands? Non-space astronomy has been making major advances in the past twenty
years, diminishing Hubble's early advantage -- exactly where is that
happening?

Jim O

joberg at houston.rr.com

JimO wrote:

Where are some of the ground-based telescope complexes that are beginning to
match Hubble's resolution and light gathering, especially in the visible
bands? Non-space astronomy has been making major advances in the past twenty
years, diminishing Hubble's early advantage -- exactly where is that
happening?


Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, for one: see

http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/geninfo/about.html.

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Odysseus

Besides Keck in Hawaii, there's Paranal in Chile.
http://www.eso.org/projects/vlt/

Where are some of the ground-based telescope complexes that are beginning
to
match Hubble's resolution and light gathering, especially in the visible
bands? Non-space astronomy has been making major advances in the past
twenty
years, diminishing Hubble's early advantage -- exactly where is that
happening?

Jim O

joberg at houston.rr.com