Paper
22 July 2014 European Extremely Large Telescope: progress report
Author Affiliations +
Abstract
The European Extremely Large Telescope is a project of the European Southern Observatory to build and operate a 40-m class optical near-infrared telescope. The telescope design effort is largely concluded and construction contracts are being placed with industry and academic/research institutes for the various components. The siting of the telescope in Northern Chile close to the Paranal site allows for an integrated operation of the facility providing significant economies. The progress of the project in various areas is presented in this paper and references to other papers at this SPIE meeting are made.
© (2014) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
R. Tamai and J. Spyromilio "European Extremely Large Telescope: progress report", Proc. SPIE 9145, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V, 91451E (22 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2058467
Lens.org Logo
CITATIONS
Cited by 12 scholarly publications.
Advertisement
Advertisement
RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS
Get copyright permission  Get copyright permission on Copyright Marketplace
KEYWORDS
Telescopes

Mirrors

Space telescopes

Adaptive optics

Control systems

Domes

Optical instrument design

RELATED CONTENT

A new graphical user interface for observatory control
Proceedings of SPIE (June 30 2006)
Issues in scaling the ELT up to 100 m
Proceedings of SPIE (August 02 2000)
Status of the Magellan Project
Proceedings of SPIE (June 01 1994)
Is there an upper limit to the size of enclosures?
Proceedings of SPIE (August 02 2000)
A preliminary design for the E-ELT enclosure
Proceedings of SPIE (July 10 2008)

Back to Top