Telescopes: How big can they be?

[synsei]

So, Europe already owns and runs the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in South America (headquarters in Germany) and now they are proposing to build an even bigger one, the imaginatively named Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). So, the question is: What should the next in line be called?

For myself I propose the Positively Humongous Antipodean Telescope (PHAT)

Over to you... :D

[Roy S]

Tremendously Wide Astronomical Telescope...

[synsei]

:rfl:

[Ali Tait]

Completely Realistic Astronomical Panorama.

[Roy S]

(you never know what you might see looking in one of those)

[The Grand Wazoo]

I heard something last week about a proposed project called The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) which will be in S. Africa and Australia.

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2012/05/25/hi-ska.jpg

Personally if I had a big telescope I'd call it 'Icksma-huffa' - ICSMHFH - I Can See My House From Here

[The Vinyl Adventure]

AONIO F.O.L

Aliens! Oh No It's Ok, Fly On Lens

[Audio Al]

Makes my 8" and 10" Meade look a bit pony

But I have seen some nice things :)

[MartinT]

Seriously Humungous Interstellar Telescope.

[DaveK]

But I have seen some nice things :)

Are we talking stellar objects here or earthbound? :lol:

[Puffin]

Cosmic Upsampler Nextgen Telescope

[Ali Tait]

Makes my 8" and 10" Meade look a bit pony

But I have seen some nice things :)

Some nice globes perhaps? :eyebrows:

[Reid Malenfant]

Look up OWL :)

Overwhelmingly Large telescope (http://www.discogs.com/Steve-Roach-Darkest-Before-Dawn/release/205131)


You have your answer... I think 100M is big enough no? :eyebrows: