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Large Binocular Telescope-------------------------This information was taken from the LBTO website (lbto.org/about) on March 27, 2025The binocular design of the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) has two identical 8.4mtelescopes mounted side-by-side on a common altitude-azimuth mounting for a combinedcollecting area of a single 11.8m telescope. The entire telescope and enclosure arevery compact by virtue of the fast focal ratio (F/1.14) of the primary mirrors.The two primary mirrors are separated by 14.4m center-to-center and provide aninterferometric baseline of 22.8m edge-to-edge. The binocular design, combined withintegrated adaptive optics utilizing adaptive Gregorian secondary mirrors tocompensate for atmospheric phase errors, provides a large effective aperture, highangular resolution, low thermal background, and exceptional sensitivity for thedetection of faint objects. The LBT is an international collaboration of the University of Arizona, Italy (INAF:Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica), Germany (LBTB: LBT Beteiligungsgesellschaft), TheOhio State University, representing also the University of Minnesota, the Universityof Virginia, and the University of Notre Dame.
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