Melting Glass For The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Thursday, July 3, 2008 4:30Posted in category News, Technology
The 8.4m Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will add a qualitatively new capability in astronomy providing time-lapse digital imaging of faint astronomical objects across the entire sky. This telescope it is expected to see first light in 2014 from Cerro Pachon in Chile.
A Mirror Lab is located at the University of Arizona where hot glass is melted inside a rotating oven. This glass will then form the primary and tertiary mirrors of the Telescope.
I guess you haven’t seen melting glass for telescopes before, so watch this impressive video
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