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• OWL - OverWhelmingly Large Telescope ( ESO )
  
  http://www.eso.org/projects/owl/

• TMT - Thirty Meter Telescope Project ( CalTech , UC , AURA , ACURA )
  
  The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project is engaged in a design and development phase. TMT is proposed as a private-public partnership of the California Institute of Technology and the University of California (partners in the earlier CELT design study), AURA (designers of the earlier GSMT concept), and the Canadian ACURA consortium (designers of the VLOT concept). The partners are developing a 30 meter diameter, finely segmented filled aperture telescope with seeing-limited and diffraction-limited capabilities to address the broad range of GSMT science goals. The paper will present the status of the project development and telescope and instrument design. ( G. Sanders (TMT Project), [79.03], AAS 205th Meeting, 9-13 January 2005
  

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  • Glasgow_SPIE/5497-33.pdf [PDF] : Computationally efficient performance simulations for a TMT
  • Sweden_SPIE/Ao_challenges.pdf: [PDF] Active optics challenges of a thirty meter segmented mirror telescope

  California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT)

  The California Extremely Large Telescope
  GSMT
  Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope for the Astronomical Community

• Euro50 - Euro 50m telescope (Sweden )
  
  see also http://www.euro50.org/ .

• VLOT - Very Large Optical Telescope ( Canada )
  
  http://www.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/projects/VLOT_e.html

• GMT - Gian Magellan Telescope
  
  http://www.gmto.org/
  
  [PDF] A second Giant Magellan (GMT) telescope in Antarctica
  
  
• LAMA : Large Aperture Mirror Array
  The LAMA telescope is an array of eighteen fixed 10-meter liquid-mirror (mercury) telescopes of an overall diameter of 54 meters with a light-collecting power equivalent to that of a 42-metre telescope.
  An elementary telescope is a 10-m f/2.5 parabolic liquid mirror, rotating about a vertical axis. Each telescope is equipped with a rotating primary mirror, coated with a thin layer of liquid mercury, and an optical tracking system which relays light to the central beam combining room.
  A system employs as Fizeau interferometer.
  
  

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• U.Aizona Telescopes Web
  http://www.as.arizona.edu/telescopes/telescopes.html
  Related paper list
  http://caao.as.arizona.edu/
  • Large Binocular Telescope (Arizona) at Mt.Graham
    
    http://medusa.as.arizona.edu/lbtwww/lbt.html

  • The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
    The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a proposed ground-based 8.4-meter, 10 square-degree-field telescope that will provide digital imaging of faint astronomical objects across the entire sky, night after night. In a relentless campaign of 10-second exposures, LSST will cover the available sky every three nights, opening a movie-like window on objects that change or move on rapid timescales: exploding supernovae, potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, and distant Kuiper Belt Objects. The superb images from the LSST will also be used to trace the apparent distortions in the shapes of remote galaxies produced by lumps of Dark Matter, providing multiple tests of the mysterious Dark Energy.

  • 20/20 telescope
    
    20m/20m telescopes on 120m circle is proposed ( pdf file(863KB)) with MCAO using M2 deformable mirror by Roger Angel, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, and also refer to another pdf file (204KB).
    Opticas is described by H.M. Martin et al. in pdf file(1.6MB)
    

• McDonald Obs at U-Texas at Austin
  http://www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald

• Indian Astronomical Observatory Hanle:
  http://www.iiap.res.in/iao/iao.html

• LAMOST ( http://www.lamost.org/intro_e.htm )

  The National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC)
  ( http://www.bao.ac.cn/english/home.asp )

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• JWST
  
  http://www.stsci.edu/jwst/
  http://ngst.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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• Meteological Info
  http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/new_AtSC/sse.html
  
  sasaki@naoj.org
  
  http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/sse/
  -> Meteorology and Solar Energy
  EData tables for a particular location
  * Click on a desired map location * Enter latitude and longitude
  Tables of all SSE data set parameters for a single site.
  EGlobal/Regional Plots
  Color plots of most of the SSE data set parameters with user defined global/regional boundaries.
  http://nndc.noaa.gov/ http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
  to buy CD-ROM for Global Upper Air Climatic Atlas Global Gridded ASCII format 1980-1995 @ $75.00
  http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/reanalysis http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/data.ncep.reanalysis.derived.html

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