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Cost [FY2008 $Million]<br />

Telescopios Modernos Cost-Aperture Relation<br />

100.0<br />

DCT<br />

SOAR<br />

TNG<br />

AEOS<br />

NTT MMTo<br />

ARC<br />

WIYN<br />

UKIRT<br />

10.0<br />

1.0<br />

MROI-UT<br />

IRSF<br />

Nickel<br />

VATT<br />

SK-23<br />

VLT-AT<br />

Faulkes-N Faulkes-S<br />

LT<br />

AJT<br />

SPM<br />

MOA<br />

USNO1.3<br />

MtLemon<br />

TCS<br />

KAIT<br />

NOT<br />

Aristarcos<br />

WIRO<br />

APF SDSS-T<br />

Gonzalez 08<br />

After-construction project cost. <strong>Telescope</strong> & Building only.<br />

(GDP-deflator & exchange rates at completion date)<br />

Homogenized sample from very many kinds of sources:<br />

obs. historic archives, Press, obs. & gov. web pages,<br />

Abt 80, Meinel & Meinel 80, Schmidt-Kaler & Rucks 1998,<br />

Melsheiner 01, vanBelle et.al 03, etc.<br />

0.1<br />

0.1 1.0 10.0<br />

Main-optics Aperture [m]

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