Meet the ELT large coating plant!
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Meet the ELT large coating plant!
Aside from its main mirror, the other mirrors of our Extremely Large Telescope will be removed every two years for a new reflective coating. And the machine designed to carry out this delicate task is undergoing testing.
Discover it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lSTmjqkLoI
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #engineering
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Meet the ELT large coating plant!
Aside from its main mirror, the other mirrors of our Extremely Large Telescope will be removed every two years for a new reflective coating. And the machine designed to carry out this delicate task is undergoing testing.
Discover it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lSTmjqkLoI
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #engineering
@esoastronomy I hope that the ELT has 2 owls.
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Meet the ELT large coating plant!
Aside from its main mirror, the other mirrors of our Extremely Large Telescope will be removed every two years for a new reflective coating. And the machine designed to carry out this delicate task is undergoing testing.
Discover it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lSTmjqkLoI
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #engineering
The ELT's main mirror, 39-m wide wide, it's too big to be made out of a single piece. Instead, it consists of 798 hexagonal segments, coated with a different machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-s_UZePP_Q
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