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episode 111: Optical Astronomy and the Large Binocular Telescope
This epsiode covers my visit at the Large Binocular Telescope near Tucson, Arizona. The episode is mostly a conversation with the telescope’s director, Richard Green. We talk about optical astronomy in general and the LBT in particular. I also talk to a scientist who is currently observing at the telescope as well as a telescope operator.
- LBT homepage
- Mount Graham
- Interferometry
- Active Optics
- Adaptive Optics
- omega tau 16 – Radio Astronomy and the ALMA Telescope
- Stewart Observatory Mirror Lab
- Borosilicate glass
- Refracting telescope
- Reflecting telescope
- Galileo Galilei
- Diffraction
- Gregorian telescope
- Laser guide star
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Diffraction-limited system
- Decadal Survey
- Solar System Exploration: : Planetary Decadal Survey 2013-2022
- Light Pollution (WP)
- W. M. Keck Observatory
- Fizeau interferometer (WP)
- VLT (WP)
- ELT (WP)
- MODS Instrument Home Page
- Spectrograph (WP)
- Lucifer
- Infrared astronomy (WP)
- Spectrum (WP)
- Collimated light (WP)/a>
- Quasar (WP)
- Hubble Imaging Spectrograph (WP)
- Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (WP)
- Big Bang (WP)
- Kitt Peak National Observatory
- LINC Nirvana
- Band-pass filter (WP)
- PEPSI Instrument
- Global warming (WP)
- Photonic Lanterns
- Extrasolar planet (WP)
- exoplanet (WP)
- Eddington luminosity (WP)
- Lambda-CDM model (WP)
- Critical density (WP)
- Dark matter (WP)
- Dark energy (WP)
- Giant Magellan Telescope