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The 15-Meter National New Technology Telescope: an Update

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

L.D. Barr
L.D. Barr*
Affiliation:
Advanced Development Program, National Optical Astronomy Observatories*

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The 15-Meter National New Technology Telescope (NNTT) Program, growing out of the earlier "Next Generation Telescope" studies at Kitt Peak National Observatory, is now responding to the recently published recommendation of the Astronomy Survey Committee of the American National Academy of Sciences:

"...the construction of a New Technology Telescope (NTT) [NNTT] in the 15-m class on the ground for observations in the optical and in the near- and mid-infrared regions of the spectrum (0.3-to 20µm wavelength). The design studies needed before the NNT can be constructed are of the highest priority and should be undertaken immediately."

Type
VI. Very Large Telescope Projects
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 79: Very Large Telescopes, their Instrumentation and Programs , 1984 , pp. 727 - 744
Copyright
Copyright © ESO 1984

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