Team Effort

This image shows some of the people behind the scenes at the technical acceptance of the massive 3-ton blank for the ELT’s secondary mirror.

M2 will be the largest ever secondary mirror employed on a telescope, as well as the largest convex mirror ever produced. Fabricating this highly convex, aspherical mirror is a considerable challenge — and the result will be a truly remarkable example of pioneering optical engineering. The secondary mirror and its support system — weighing 12 tonnes —  will hang upside-down high above the 39-metre primary mirror.

 

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Data publikacji:16 stycznia 2019 10:00
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Nazwa:Extremely Large Telescope
Typ:Unspecified : Technology
Kategoria:ELT

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