NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of optical telescopes

Name	Abbreviation	Remarks	Location
Anglo-Australian Observatory	AAO	3.9 metre Anglo-Australian Telescope, ANU's Siding Spring 2.3 m Telescope, 1.2 metre UK Schmidt Telescope	Coonabarabran, New South Wales (Australia)
David Dunlap Observatory	DDO		Richmond Hill, Ontario (Canada)
McDonald Observatory		11m Hobby-Eberly Telescope, 2.7m Harlan J. Smith Telescope, 2.1m Otto Struve Telescope	Davis Mountains, 450 miles west of Austin, Texas (USA)
Infrared Optical Telescope Array	IOTA		Amado, Arizona (USA)
Keck Telescopes	Keck	Two 10m optical/infrared telescopes (occasionally used as an interferometer)	Mauna Kea, Hawaii (USA)
Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer	MRO	Interferometer which will have up to ten telescopes, providing the highest resolution optical images in the world	Magdalena Ridge, New Mexico (USA)
Nordic Optical Telescope	NOT	2.6m optical/infrared telescope.	Canary Islands, Spain
Overwhelmingly Large Telescope	OWL	Conceptual design of a telescope with a single aperture of 100 meters in diameter.	Still on research status.
Southern African Large Telescope	SALT	Biggest telescope in the southern hemisphere of the Earth.	Karoo, South Africa
Very Large Telescope	VLT	Four separate 8m optical/infrared telescopes (occasionally used as an interferometer).	Paranal Observatory, Chile
William Herschel Telescope	WHT	4.2m optical/infrared telescope.	Canary Islands, Spain
	LAT	1.8m (70 inch) Amateur telescope, under development	TBD, California (USA)

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State nickname: Land of Enchantment Other U.S. States Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Governor Bill Richardson Official languages English and Spanish Area 315,194 km² (5th) - Land 314,590 km² - Water 607 km² (0. ... The dome of the Nordic Optical Telescope. ... Canaries Capitals Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 13th 7 447 km² 1,5% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 8th 1 843 755 4,4% 247,58/km² Demonym – English – Spanish Canary Islander canario/a Statute of Autonomy August 16... Computer model of SALTs external appearance. ... The Southern Hemisphere is the part of Earths surface that is south of the equator. ... Earth, also known as the Earth or Terra, is the third planet outward from the Sun. ... The four telescopes of the European Southern Observatory Paranal site. ... 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