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New Technology Telescope - Definition and Overview |
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The New Technology Telescope, or NTT is a 3.6m telescope located in La Silla, Chile.
It saw first light in 1989 and is owned by ESO. It is fitted with active optics (not to be confused with adaptive optics) allowing it to obtain an excellent image quality by having a thin mirror kept in shape with a number of actuators beneath.
External link
ESO's NTT page (http://www.ls.eso.org/lasilla/sciops/ntt/telescope/esontt.html)
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