The Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham, Arizona has taken pictures with his heavenly twin side-by-side, 27.6 feet (8.4 meter) primary mirror, achieving first "binoculars" light.
U.S., Italian and German partners in the telescope, known as the LBT is the release of the pictures today. First binoculars light is a milestone not only for the LBT - now the world's most powerful telescope - but for astronomy itself, the partners say.
The first light binoculars images show three false-color rendition of the spiral galaxy NGC 2770th The galaxy is 102 million light years from year our Milky Way, a relatively close neighbours. The galaxy has a flat disk of stars and glowing gas and is slightly tilted in the direction of our line of sight.
The first picture combines ultraviolet and green light and stresses the clumpy regions of the newly formed hot stars in the spiral arms. The second image combines two dark red color in order to smooth the distribution of older, cooler stars. The third image is a composite of UV, green and deep red light and shows the detailed structure of the hot, temperate and cool stars in the galaxy. The cameras and pictures were taken by the major Binocular Camera team, led by Emanuele Giallongo in Rome Astrophysical Observatory.
The LBT is a light-gathering surface of a single 39-foot (11.8 meters) surfaces and light combined to achieve the sharpness corresponds to a single 75-foot (22.8 meters) telescope. It is located in 10480-foot Mount Graham in southeast Arizona.
"Being a fully functional binocular telescope is not only a time to celebrate here in the LBT, but also for the entire community of astronomy", UA Steward Observatory Director, Regents' professor and LBT Corp. President Peter A. Strittmatter says. "The pictures that the telescope will produce is not as previously seen. The strength and clarity of this machine is a class for itself. It offers unsurpassed-to-peer capability in the history since the birth of the universe."
Regents' Professor and Steward Observatory Mirror Lab Director Roger Angel was one of the UA astronomers designed the basic idea for the LBT in the early 1980s. The UA-Mirror Lab, known worldwide for breakthrough technologies mirror, occupation of the LBT mirror in its huge rotating oven and polished them with a unique technique stressed lap virtual perfection. Angel was previously involved in UA research, the development of adaptive optics technologies for the giant telescopes, technologies, the defeat of atmospheric turbulence.
"The LBT gives me the most satisfaction of all astronomy project I have worked, because it's very revolutionary, and because Arizona has the biggest and the best telescope in the world," says Angel. "If all parts are available, the LBT will be sharper images than any other telescope. I think it is the most likely telescope to the first pictures of planets around other stars, because of a unique advanced technologies used to build it."
International cooperation saw that the project to completion "is remarkable," says John P. Schaefer, chairman of the LBT Corp. Board of Directors and a member of the Research Group Corp. Board of Directors. "The LBT project was once only an idea, and now it is the world's most advanced telescope, developed by the international cooperation of more than 15 institutions. The completion of this one-of-a-kind instrument reflects what can happen when people come together towards a common goal. "
LBT Director Richard Green says: "The amount of time and effort to this project was to reach the point where we are today, is immense. We have, through challenging moments, but to see the telescope with the two operational level is a great feeling. Anyone who has worked on this, at all levels, is enormously proud of what has been achieved. "
U.S., Italian and German partners in the telescope, known as the LBT is the release of the pictures today. First binoculars light is a milestone not only for the LBT - now the world's most powerful telescope - but for astronomy itself, the partners say.
The first light binoculars images show three false-color rendition of the spiral galaxy NGC 2770th The galaxy is 102 million light years from year our Milky Way, a relatively close neighbours. The galaxy has a flat disk of stars and glowing gas and is slightly tilted in the direction of our line of sight.
The first picture combines ultraviolet and green light and stresses the clumpy regions of the newly formed hot stars in the spiral arms. The second image combines two dark red color in order to smooth the distribution of older, cooler stars. The third image is a composite of UV, green and deep red light and shows the detailed structure of the hot, temperate and cool stars in the galaxy. The cameras and pictures were taken by the major Binocular Camera team, led by Emanuele Giallongo in Rome Astrophysical Observatory.
The LBT is a light-gathering surface of a single 39-foot (11.8 meters) surfaces and light combined to achieve the sharpness corresponds to a single 75-foot (22.8 meters) telescope. It is located in 10480-foot Mount Graham in southeast Arizona.
"Being a fully functional binocular telescope is not only a time to celebrate here in the LBT, but also for the entire community of astronomy", UA Steward Observatory Director, Regents' professor and LBT Corp. President Peter A. Strittmatter says. "The pictures that the telescope will produce is not as previously seen. The strength and clarity of this machine is a class for itself. It offers unsurpassed-to-peer capability in the history since the birth of the universe."
Regents' Professor and Steward Observatory Mirror Lab Director Roger Angel was one of the UA astronomers designed the basic idea for the LBT in the early 1980s. The UA-Mirror Lab, known worldwide for breakthrough technologies mirror, occupation of the LBT mirror in its huge rotating oven and polished them with a unique technique stressed lap virtual perfection. Angel was previously involved in UA research, the development of adaptive optics technologies for the giant telescopes, technologies, the defeat of atmospheric turbulence.
"The LBT gives me the most satisfaction of all astronomy project I have worked, because it's very revolutionary, and because Arizona has the biggest and the best telescope in the world," says Angel. "If all parts are available, the LBT will be sharper images than any other telescope. I think it is the most likely telescope to the first pictures of planets around other stars, because of a unique advanced technologies used to build it."
International cooperation saw that the project to completion "is remarkable," says John P. Schaefer, chairman of the LBT Corp. Board of Directors and a member of the Research Group Corp. Board of Directors. "The LBT project was once only an idea, and now it is the world's most advanced telescope, developed by the international cooperation of more than 15 institutions. The completion of this one-of-a-kind instrument reflects what can happen when people come together towards a common goal. "
LBT Director Richard Green says: "The amount of time and effort to this project was to reach the point where we are today, is immense. We have, through challenging moments, but to see the telescope with the two operational level is a great feeling. Anyone who has worked on this, at all levels, is enormously proud of what has been achieved. "
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