Extremely Large Telescope

[jmorgan]

No accounting for calling a spade a spade.

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1419/

https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/e-elt/

ESO said:

Dubbed E-ELT for European Extremely Large Telescope, this revolutionary new ground-based telescope concept will have a 39-metre main mirror and will be the largest optical/near-infrared telescope in the world: “the world’s biggest eye on the sky”.

And
https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/e-elt/e-elt...

ELT concept link above said:

The present core concept is for a telescope with a mirror 39 metres in diameter, covering a field on the sky about a tenth the size of the full Moon. The mirror design itself is revolutionary and is based on a novel five-mirror scheme that results in an exceptional image quality. The primary mirror consists of almost 800 segments, each 1.4 metres wide, but only 50 mm thick. The optical design calls for an immense secondary mirror 4.2 metres in diameter, bigger than the primary mirrors of any of ESO's telescopes at La Silla.

Adaptive mirrors are incorporated into the optics of the telescope to compensate for the fuzziness in the stellar images introduced by atmospheric turbulence. One of these mirrors is supported by more than 6000 actuators that can distort its shape a thousand times per second.

The telescope will have several science instruments. It will be possible to switch from one instrument to another within minutes. The telescope and dome will also be able to change positions on the sky and start a new observation in a very short time.

The ability to observe over a wide range of wavelengths from the optical to mid-infrared will allow scientists to exploit the telescope's size to the fullest extent.

Chuffin el. Hate to have the job with the Windoline and a J cloth.

[Halmyre]

Needs a bit more imagination with the names! What's next, the "Even Larger Telescope"? The "fk Me That's A Big Telescope"? Surely there's plenty of astronomers out there in desperate need of commemoration?

[anonymous-user]

It's also going to arrive with a bit of a "big" bang too!


Blowing up mountain for telescope

;-)

[FunkyNige]

Halmyre said:

Needs a bit more imagination with the names! What's next, the "Even Larger Telescope"? The "Fck Me That's A Big Telescope"? Surely there's plenty of astronomers out there in desperate need of commemoration?

I think it's a bit of an in-joke in the astronomy world, in the US they have the Very Large Array and Very Long Baseline Array too.

[jmorgan]

Someone has to come up with an acronym that is a bit rude, just for the hell of it.

But not forgetting the LBT.

That place in Chile would be something to see.

[annodomini2]

FunkyNige said:

Halmyre said:

Needs a bit more imagination with the names! What's next, the "Even Larger Telescope"? The "Fck Me That's A Big Telescope"? Surely there's plenty of astronomers out there in desperate need of commemoration?

I think it's a bit of an in-joke in the astronomy world, in the US they have the Very Large Array and Very Long Baseline Array too.

Why waste money, time and effort on pathetic marketing name and instead spend the cash on the device and the science.

[Halmyre]

annodomini2 said:

FunkyNige said:

Halmyre said:

Needs a bit more imagination with the names! What's next, the "Even Larger Telescope"? The "Fck Me That's A Big Telescope"? Surely there's plenty of astronomers out there in desperate need of commemoration?

I think it's a bit of an in-joke in the astronomy world, in the US they have the Very Large Array and Very Long Baseline Array too.

Why waste money, time and effort on pathetic marketing name and instead spend the cash on the device and the science.

Well, something like the James Webb Space Telescope is currently coming in at $8billion dollars; I'm guessing that picking the name didn't add up to a huge percentage of the budget. Besides, who are they 'marketing' it to? It's not as if they're picking a name for the latest Peugeot Eurobox.

[Thorodin]

Wide Angled New Kaleidoscopic Extraterrestrial Resource.

[Halmyre]

Travelling Wave Aperture Telescope

(there is actually a device called a travelling wave tube that's used to generate RF for radar systems)

Chromatically Uniform Nanometric Telescope

Massive Observable Telelscope Heterodyne Emissive Radiation Faraday Ultra Coherent Kryptonite Earth Resource

[jmorgan]

Halmyre said:

Travelling Wave Aperture Telescope

(there is actually a device called a travelling wave tube that's used to generate RF for radar systems)

Or not..... TWT,s in common parlance, add an a and they are known as something else. Basically a big valve, also used for getting your tv to your tv.

[Gandahar]

Big asteroid space tracking and relaying device.

[EliseNick]

Shame the OWL was cancelled;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_...

[jmorgan]

Superb. It is as if all the genius went into the design and when they came to the name they just could not care anymore.

[Mojocvh]

twit twoo has it.

[The Wookie]

British Open Light Level Observation Centre for Kepler Science