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ESOcast 70 — Green Light for E-ELT Construction

Thursday, December 4, 2014 4:44
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In early December 2014, ESO’s main governing body, the Council, gave the green light for the construction of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) in two phases. Spending of around one billion euros has been authorised for the first phase, which will cover the construction costs of a fully working telescope with a suite of powerful instruments and first light targeted in ten years time.

This ESOcast looks more closely at the telescope and at what it means for astronomy to have a 39-metre telescope equipped with advanced adaptive optics.

More episodes of the ESOcast are also available.

Find out how to view and contribute subtitles for the ESOcast in multiple languages or translate this video on DotSUB.

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ESO
Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser and Luis Calçada.
Editing: Herbert Zodet. 
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida. 
Written by: Mathias Jäger, Herbert Zodet and Richard Hook.
Narration: Joe Liske (Dr. J). 
Music: Johan B. Monell (www.johanmonell.com).
Footage and photos: ESO, L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser, S. Rivera, ESA/Hubble, NOVA, Instrument Consortia of METIS, MAORY and MICADO, HARMONI Instrument Consortium, Theofanis N. Matsopoulos, C. Malin (christophmalin.com), B. Tafreshi (twanight.org) and A. M. Swinbank and S. Zieleniewski.
Directed by: Herbert Zodet. 
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen. 

Courtesy of European Southern Observatory



Source: http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann14091/

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