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List of optical telescopes - Definition |
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| Name
| Abbreviation
| Remarks
| Location
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| Anglo-Australian Observatory
| AAO
| 3.9 metre Anglo-Australian Telescope, 1.2 metre UK Schmidt Telescope
| Coonabarabran, New South Wales (Australia)
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| David Dunlap Observatory
| DDO
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| Richmond Hill, Ontario (Canada)
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| McDonald Observatory
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| 11m Hobby-Eberly Telescope, 2.7m Harlan J. Smith Telescope, 2.1m Otto Struve Telescope
| Davis Mountains, 450 miles west of Austin, Texas (USA)
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| Infrared Optical Telescope Array
| IOTA
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| Amado, Arizona (USA)
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| Nordic Optical Telescope
| NOT
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| Canary Islands, Spain
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| Overwhelmingly Large Telescope
| OWL
| Conceptual design of a telescope with a single aperture of 100 meters in diameter.
| Still on research status.
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| Southern African Large Telescope
| SALT
| Biggest telescope in the southern hemisphere of the Earth.
| Karoo, South Africa
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| Very Large Telescope
| VLT
| System of four separate optical telescopes organized in an array formation.
| Paranal Observatory, Chile
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| Group 70
| LAT
| 70 inch Amature telescope, under development
| TBD, California (USA)
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