Overwhelmingly Large Telescope
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The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) was a conceptual design by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) organization for an extremely large telescope, which was intended to have a single aperture of 100 meters in diameter. Because of the complexity and cost of building a telescope of this unprecedented size, ESO has decided to focus on the 39-meter diameter Extremely Large Telescope instead.
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Alternative names | OWL |
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Organization | European Southern Observatory |
Wavelength | 0.32 μm (940 THz)–12 μm (25 THz) |
Telescope style | Cassegrain reflecting telescope optical telescope |
Diameter | 60, 100 m (196 ft 10 in, 328 ft 1 in) |
Collecting area | 2,827, 7,854 m2 (30,430, 84,540 sq ft) |
Focal length | 175 m (574 ft 2 in) |
Website | www |
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