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Seeing the Universebefore 1610 - naked eye astronomy1608 - Galileo's hand held telescopes 1673 - Hevelius' long telescopes 1780 - Herschel's large reflectors 1838 - Meridian Circles 1845 - Rosse's Leviathian 1890 - Barnard's camera 1923 - The Hooker 100 inch 1948 - The Palomar 200 inch 1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope 1998 - The Keck 10 metre pair 2000 - The VLT array 2015 - Planning for the JWST 2020? - Planning the OWL How much further? 1998 The Keck telescope is a pair of twin 10 metre, multi-segmented mirror telescopes. Work is now in progress to link the two main scopes with four 1.8 m outrigger scopes to form an interferometer. When fully operational, the system will be able to resolve Jupiter sized planets around neighbourhood stars. W.M. Keck Observatory |
Cut-away drawings of the Keck 10 m telescopes, Mauna Kea, Hawaii (W.M. Keck Observatory) |