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[ground] a 4-m Wide Field Survey telescope for the Southern Hemisphere. It will be sited on Cerro
Paranal, Chile.
http://www.vista.ac.uk/
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4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope Project
http://vela.astro.ulg.ac.be/themes/telins/lmt/index_e.html
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Swedish 50-meter Optical Telescope
[ground] Lund Observatory is proposing to construct a telescope with a 50-m primary mirror and full
adaptive optics. Such a telescope could have a resolution of about 2 milliarcseconds.
http://www.astro.lu.se/~torben/50m/50m.html
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OWL Concept Study
[ground] ESO (the European Southern Observatory) is developing a concept of ground-based, 100-m
class optical telescope christened OWL for its keen night vision and for OverWhelmingly Large.
http://www.eso.org/projects/owl/
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The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) Project
[ground] The goal of the LBT project is to construct a binocular telescope consisting of two 8.4
meter mirrors on a common mount. This telescope will be equivalent in light-gathering
power to a single 11.8 meter instrument. Because of its binocular arrangement, the
telescope will have a resolving power (ultimate image sharpness) corresponding to a 22.8
meter telescope.
http://medusa.as.arizona.edu/lbtwww/lbt.html
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Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)
[ground] An 11-meter telescope with a hexagonal mirror array, the largest single telescope in the
southern hemisphere.
http://www.salt.ac.za/
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The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST)
[ground] a 4-m Schmidt telescope with a 5-degree field of view and active optics. The available
large focal plane of 1.75 meters in diameter may accommodate up to 4000 fibers, by which the
collected light of distant and faint celestial objects down to 20.5 magnitude is fed into the
spectrographs, promising a very high spectrum acquiring rate of several ten-thousands of spectra
per night. The telescope will be located at the Xinglong Station of Beijing Astronomical
Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The project is planned to be completed in 2004.
http://lamost.bao.ac.cn
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Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) Project
[ground] A high performance segmented 10.4 meter telescope to be installed in one of the best sites
of the Northern Hemisphere: the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma, Canary Islands,
Spain).
http://www.gtc.iac.es/home.html
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Dark Matter Telescope (DMT)
[ground] is a proposed 8.4 meter, 3-degree-field, synoptic survey telescope. The product of
collecting area and field of view will be 20 times more powerful than any observatory now
operating or under construction. The possibility of repeatedly surveying large portions of the sky
to unprecedented depth opens a range of unique scientific opportunities.
http://www.dmtelescope.org
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California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT)
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http://www.ucolick.org/~celt
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