Hobby-Eberly Telescope

199710 m segmented mirrorUT Austin + partners

LocationUSA (TX)

Year1997

Size10 m segmented mirror

OperatorUT Austin + partners

About Hobby-Eberly Telescope

Located at McDonald Observatory at 2,024 m in West Texas. One of the first big segmented-mirror telescopes. Its structure tilts in azimuth only, a cost-saving design. The HETDEX survey is mapping 2 million galaxies to measure how fast the universe expanded at different epochs.

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McDonald Observatory

1939VariousUT Austin

Located in the Davis Mountains of West Texas at 2,070 m. Hosts the Hobby-Eberly Telescope and the 2....