Summers, Doug Astier, Joseph Suarez Sola, Igor Veillet, Christian Power, Jennifer Cardwell, Andrew Walsh, Shane Moving toward queue operations at the Large Binocular Telescope ObservatoryĮdwards, Michelle L. The first of these adaptive mirrors has completed final system testing in Firenze, Italy, and is planned to be at the telescope by Spring 2010. The telescope uses two F/15 adaptive secondaries to correct atmospheric turbulence. We comment on some of the technical challenges and solutions. We report some sample astronomical results with the prime focus cameras. This paper describes the design, construction, and commissioning of this unique telescope.

This cophased imaging along with adaptive optics gives the telescope the diffraction-limited resolution of a 22.65 m aperture and a collecting area equivalent to an 11.8 m circular aperture. A unique feature of the LBT is that the light from the two Gregorian telescope sides can be combined to produce phased-array imaging of an extended field. The telescope on Mount Graham in Southeastern Arizona uses two 8.4 m diameter primary mirrors mounted side by side. Unfortunately the next version probably won't be released until October/November.The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) Observatory is a collaboration among institutions in Arizona, Germany, Italy, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Virginia. IWeb is definitely not perfect, but the next version might be much improved. Dreamweaver doesn't seem ideal, and it's $50 now. It also appears to have nice blogging features. For example, it easily handles uploading to any desired server. RW is more polished in other ways though. You convenient page layout features of iWeb, and RW still doesn't integrate with Aperture (iPhoto yes, but I don't want to move my photos from Aperture to iPhoto then finally to DW). I'm frustrated with iWeb, but Rapidweaver is not a dream either.

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