Telescope Optical Design - inaoe
Telescope Optical Design - inaoe
Telescope Optical Design - inaoe
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Cost [FY2008 $Million]<br />
Very Large<strong>Telescope</strong>s Cost-Aperture Relation<br />
Subaru<br />
GTC<br />
100.0<br />
Gemini-N<br />
Gemini-S<br />
Keck-I<br />
LBT<br />
VLT-UT1<br />
Keck-II<br />
VLT-UT<br />
MMT<br />
Mag1<br />
Mag2<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 />
10.0<br />
1.0 10.0<br />
Main-optics Aperture [m]