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Acronym: ING
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Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
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ear sky. Often, the view from the top of the volcano is a sea of clouds covering the eastern part of the island. Telescopes at the observatory include: *The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) operates three telescopes: the William Herschel Telescope, the Isaac Newton Telescope and the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope. *The Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT). *The [[Swedish Sol |
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Acronym: DOT
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Dutch Open Telescope
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. *The Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT). *The Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) operated by the Institute for Solar Physics. *The Dutch Open Telescope (DOT). *A optical telescope. *The Carlsberg Meridian Telescope (CMT). *The Mercator Telescope. *The Liverpool Telescope. *The Gran Telescopio Canarias (Great Canary Telescope, dedi |
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Acronym: TNG
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Telescopio Nazionale Galileo
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MT). *The Mercator Telescope. *The Liverpool Telescope. *The Gran Telescopio Canarias (Great Canary Telescope, dedicated 24 July, 2009). *The Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG). *The MAGIC (Telescope)|MAGIC Telescope, an air shower Cherenkov telescope for observing high energy gamma rays *The SuperWASP-North telescope, used to detect extrasolar planets. Th |
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Acronym: AO
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adaptive optics
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cross. The E-ELT would need to use a similar design. In addition, the E-ELT would also need to use techniques to work around atmospheric distortion of incoming light, known as adaptive optics (AO). Project E-ELT has the aim of observing the Universe in greater detail than even the Hubble Space Telescope. A mirror of approximately would allow the study of the atmospheres of [[extrasol |
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