Some important ground-based optical telescopes

Some important ground-based optical telescopes

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Some important ground-based optical telescopes
name aperture (metres) type observatory location date observations began
Gran Telescopio Canarias 10.4 reflector Roque de los Muchachos Observatory La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain 2007
Keck I, Keck II 10, 10 reflector Keck Observatory Mauna Kea, Hawaii 1993, 1996
Southern African Large Telescope 11.1 × 9.8 reflector Sutherland, South Africa 2005
Hobby-Eberly Telescope 11.1 × 9.8 reflector McDonald Observatory Fort Davis, Texas 1999
Large Binocular Telescope 2 mirrors, each 8.4 reflector Mount Graham, Arizona 2008
Subaru 8.3 reflector Mauna Kea, Hawaii 1999
Antu, Kueyen, Melipal, Yepun 8.2, 8.2, 8.2, 8.2 reflector Very Large Telescope Cerro Paranal, Chile 1998, 1999, 2000, 2000
Frederick C. Gillett Gemini North Telescope 8.1 reflector International Gemini Observatory Mauna Kea, Hawaii 2000
Gemini South Telescope 8.1 reflector International Gemini Observatory Cerro Pachon, Chile 2000
MMT 6.5 reflector MMT Observatory Mount Hopkins, Arizona 2000
Walter Baade, Landon Clay 6.5, 6.5 reflector Magellan Telescopes Cerro Las Campanas, Chile 2000, 2002
Bolshoi Teleskop 6 reflector Special Astrophysical Observatory Zelenchukskaya, Russia 1976
Hale Telescope 5 reflector Palomar Observatory Mount Palomar (Palomar, Mount), California 1948
William Herschel Telescope 4.2 reflector Roque de los Muchachos Observatory La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain 1987
Victor M. Blanco Telescope 4 reflector Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Cerro Tololo, Chile 1974
Anglo-Australian Telescope 3.9 reflector Siding Spring Observatory (Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories) Siding Spring Mountain, New South Wales, Austl. 1974
Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope 3.8 reflector Kitt Peak National Observatory Kitt Peak, Arizona 1970
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope 3.6 reflector Mauna Kea, Hawaii 1979
3.6 reflector La Silla Observatory La Silla, Chile 1977
Hooker Telescope 2.5 reflector Mount Wilson Observatory Mount Wilson, California 1918
Samuel Oschin Telescope 1.2 reflector Palomar Observatory Mount Palomar, California 1948
1 refractor Yerkes Observatory Williams Bay, Wisconsin 1897
Lick Refractor 0.9 refractor Lick Observatory Mount Hamilton, California 1888
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