VATT Vatican Advanced Technolog Mount Graham
Inaugurated in September of 1993 the VATT or Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope is still operational drawfed in the shadows of the new LBT facility directly to the east When the LBT is fully operational it will be the world s most technologically advanced optical telescope creating images in the near infrared expected to be nearly 10 times sharper than images from the Hubble Space Telescope The final configuration will be a telescope with two 8 4 meter mirrors mounted on a common base hence the name binocular taking full advantage of the active and adaptive optics provided by Arcetri Observatory The collecting area will be equivalent to an 11 9 meter circular aperture greater than any other single telescope Also an interferometric mode will be available with a maximum baseline of 22 8 meters for aperture synthesis imaging observations and a baseline of 15 meters for nulling interferometry Southern Arizona s highest mountain has become an open air laboratory for culture ecology forest fire research and astronomy
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