Future giant telescopes: astronomy's Holy Grail or Pandora's Box?

Jacques Maurice Beckers

doi:10.1117/12.457989

30 January 2003 Future giant telescopes: astronomy's Holy Grail or Pandora's Box?

Jacques Maurice Beckers

Proceedings Volume 4840, Future Giant Telescopes; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.457989
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

In this paper I review and reflect on the contributions given at this conference and place them in a broader context. Emboldened by the recent successes of 8 to 10-meter class telescopes and by the success of adaptive optics in making these telescopes diffraction limited, astronomers and engineers are now embarking on the quest for giant telescopes. Are these plans realistic? Are we overreaching ourselves?

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Jacques Maurice Beckers "Future giant telescopes: astronomy's Holy Grail or Pandora's Box?", Proc. SPIE 4840, Future Giant Telescopes, (30 January 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.457989

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