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Sep 21, 2014
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"The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) was a conceptual design by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) organization for an extremely large telescope, which was intended to have a single aperture of 100 meters [≈ height of the Statue of Liberty, foundation of pedestal to torch] in diameter."
- Amit Patel
"The OWL could be expected to regularly see astronomical objects with an apparent magnitude of 38; or 1,500 times fainter than the faintest object which has been detected by the Hubble Space Telescope."
- Amit Patel
Wow, this will make the 200 inch Palomar look like a toy.
- Joe
Yeah, I love the comparison diagram, although I didn't realize OWL was on there at first
- Amit Patel