The largest telescope in the world, who will order several sizes exceed all previous giant to look to the stars, will be built on the mountain Cerro Armazones (3060m above sea level) in Chile, it was decided on 26 April at the meeting held at the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
Comparison of the size of the E-ELT with intercontinental travel by car and plane
After thorough testing several potential sites around the world Cerro Armazones is rated as the best place to accommodate the giant world has not seen any. No small role played by the fact that the sky is clear during the 320 days a year and it is close (twenty miles), another "astronomical top" Cerro Paranal, where telescopes are located in the VLT-VLTI system.
E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope) will be a giant mirror with a diameter of up to 42m. The previous largest telescopes in the world have a mirror diameter of ten meters, and the famous Hubble Space Telescope "only" 2.4m!
E-ELT will have a mass of over 5.000tona! His course will be a mirror The cast in one piece but will be set to the correct structure even 984 small mirrors to the precision engineering and computer control to work as an equivalent single telescope mirror diameter of 42m.
Six special laser will generate artificial stars in order to ensure perfect navigation telescopes but they will primarily serve to opto-electronic equipment "used my" atmospheric turbulence and neutralize interference which will ultimately give a hundred times better performance than the latest editions Hubble Space Telescope!
Cerro Armazones
It is believed that the E-ELT will allow astronomers to see the ISK and planets around other stars, as well as monitoring activities (detection of stellar spots) on the stars in our galaxy. You will be able to clearly distinguish and record individual stars in close GCs even in other galaxies of the local group. Construction jobs around the telescope and the supporting infrastructure will start later this year and I have a telescope should be operational in 2018th Cost of construction is estimated to be at least a billion of euros, which are part of the funds already secured.
Marino Tumpić
