Kevdan Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Hi all,Just read up about the E-ELT (european extra large Telescope) and just think WOW, This is supposed to be able to view new planets from other solar systems and provide more data than most large telescopes put together. But at £8 billion will my aperture fever be cured if I can see my bank manager and explain its for medical reasons. More about the E-ELT can be found here.http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-06/13/extremely-large-telescopeKev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeSkywatcher Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 WOW......................Just check out the size of the mirror compared to what look like vehicles in the artists impression.It all sounds uuber exciting...............actually observing exo-planets in "real time" from a ground-based scope.I dont like the name thought. It should be called the E-XLT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamAndrew Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Think they've added an extra 0 on the end of the price, other articles were saying £800 million.Can't wait for it to be built ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naemeth Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Other websites (BBC included) were saying £0.8 million (same as Voyager has cost). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Drew Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 At 0.8 million i'd have two and make a binocular Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Astra Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Love at first sight????? (Sorry lads, Mrs. Astra said "NO!" to having one in the back garden......)Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeSkywatcher Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has been given the green light to build the world's largest optical telescope -- a monster €10 billion (£8 billion) skywatcher that will be capable of directly imaging large exoplanets.Surely this will increase sales of Skywatcher scopes.LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevdan Posted June 23, 2012 Author Share Posted June 23, 2012 Makes my order for my 250pds seem rather insignificant. But at 40 meters across and my garden is about 8 meters across x 15 meters long I may have to have a word with the neighbours,Has it got to go in an observatory or will it fit on my NEQ6 ?Kev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glowjet Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Kev,You don`t need a scope of that aperture to see your bank manager surely joking aside, it was not long ago that the Mount Palomar 200" was regarded in awe, now look we are up to 1532" should be an amazing scope, wonder if they are going to use TelVue EP`s and a Powermate ? John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucjam Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 C'mon mods, surely this should be moved to the DIY section.When will the self build plans be available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FraserClarke Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Just to confirm the cost, it is 800 million pounds, or 0.8 billion pounds (actual costing is in Euros, and is 1083M€). The official ESO page is here;http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/e-elt.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologuitarist61 Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I wonder where the money is coming from - haven't they just effectively moth-balled the VLT for lack of funds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FraserClarke Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I wonder where the money is coming from - haven't they just effectively moth-balled the VLT for lack of funds?I'm not sure where you got that from, but I can assure you that the VLT is very far from being moth-balled! It's still very much in full time operation, and has a stream of new instruments in development/planned. In fact, the UK is about to deliver a new spectrograph (KMOS) to the VLT later this year.The E-ELT programme is in addition to all the other ESO programmes (VLT, La Silla, ALMA). It does need some extra funding from the existing partners (which looks like it should be forthcoming), and the funds which will come from Brazil joining the organisation. The funding/spend profile is pretty carefully calculated so that ESO can continue to fully exploit VLT (and VLTI) whilst building/operating the E-ELT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naemeth Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I still wish they had doubled their budget to go for this:http://en.wikipedia....Large_TelescopeMuch better aperture per £! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevdan Posted June 23, 2012 Author Share Posted June 23, 2012 I still wish they had doubled their budget to go for this:http://en.wikipedia....Large_TelescopeMuch better aperture per £!Wow can see objects down to magnitude 38 , I struggle at mag 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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