Sentences with phrase «main mirror»

Wilson's idea was first tested on ESO's successful New Technology Telescope, completed in 1989, and then was applied in all four main mirrors of the Very Large Telescope, which began operations in 1998.

Those components include 210 of the 798 segments that make up the 39 - meter main mirror, back - up mirror segments, some lasers for the adaptive optics system, and a few instrument components.

The large reflecting telescopes — Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun — have 8.2 m diameter main mirrors.

All bathrooms have a shower, most over a bath, with sink, toilet, heated main mirror, make up / shaving mirror and soft fluffy bathrobes and slippers.

All of its components — its solar power array, sunshield, 6.5 - meter main mirror, and boom - mounted secondary mirror — must unfold perfectly as the spacecraft cruises to its final orbit, 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.

Though plagued by cost overruns, and a ghastly blunder in manufacturing the main mirror that had to be corrected by a Space Shuttle mission in December 1993 (which, essentially, put corrective eyeglasses on the telescope), the....

The VLT is not just one telescope, but an array of four, each with a main mirror of 8.2 meters in diameter.

Early images were fuzzy because of a now infamous defect in the telescope's main mirror (SN: 4/18/15, p. 18).

The main mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope being tested at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in 2017.

McMath - Pierce Solar Telescope Sunlight reflects down a 500 - foot shaft to the main mirror.

The race to build ever larger telescopes is driven by the simple fact that the larger the aperture of the main mirror, the more light it collects and the sharper the image.

And, at a modest 2.5 meters (8 feet) across, the Sloan telescope's main mirror can not see the incredibly dim objects that the 10 - meter (33 - foot) Keck telescopes in Hawaii can.

The heart of LSST is a main mirror 8.4 meters (about 28 feet) in diameter, which will, in a matter of seconds, register vanishingly faint objects in distant galaxies over an area spanning about 50 full moons.

It is not easy to tell when a telescope crosses the divide between idea and reality, but surely the casting of its main mirror is an important milestone.

It has a main mirror 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) across nearly 1.5 times larger than Hubble Space Telescope, and was designed to chart the universe in the far - infrared to sub-millimeter wavelengths of light.

As part of these preparations, the team at Hanford was making routine adjustments to reduce the level of noise in the gravitational - wave data caused by angular motion of the main mirrors.

The years since the launch of HST in 1990 have been momentous, with the discovery of spherical aberration in its main mirror and the search for a practical solution.

The main mirror features a beveled edge and is fully reflective.

shower curtain — Heritage Lace wooden stool — Joss and Main mirror — Target (discontinued) towel hooks — Amazon

People who cross-shop mainstream SUVs may be surprised that it costs $ 3,270 to get seat - memory buttons, or $ 4,705 to get your main mirror to automatically dim, but that's how Lexus currently arranges the placement of desirable features.

One of the great features available in many Mercedes - Benz vehicles is the garage door opener built right into the main mirror or the upper console.