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	Magellan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Magellan probe, a NASA unmanned space mission to Venus.
		The Pizarro and Co. board came, titled "Magellan" in German.
		The Magellan Science Vessel in the StarCraft universe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magellan (133 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Radio telescopes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Previously operated by the NRAO, this telescope is currently operated by the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory.
		The Ryle Telescope consists of 8 13 m dishes, and is currently used as one part of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager.
		U.S. Agency which runs the Green Bank Telescope, the Very Large Array, and is the U.S. partner in the ALMA collaboration.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Radio_telescopes (319 words)

	Magellan (Telescopes) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Magellan Telescopes are 6.5m optical telescopes located at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.
		The two telescopes are named after the astronomer Walter Baade and the philanthropist Landon Clay.
		First light for the telescopes was on September 15th, 2000 for the Baade, and September 7th, 2002 for the Clay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magellan_(Telescopes) (106 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| New telescope opens in Chile with look at star cluster
		The Magellan Project is a partnership between the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the University of Arizona, Harvard University, the Massachusetts of Technology, and the University of Michigan.
		Magellan Project Scientist Steve Shectman was at the controls, tweaking the focus and adjusting the thermal system, when the first image was recorded.
		The Magellan mirrors are a radical departure from the conventional solid-glass mirrors used in the past.
	spaceflightnow.com /news/n0009/26magellan (955 words)

	CIW - News
		Structural steel construction of the Magellan 1 enclosure and auxiliary and control buildings is reaching advanced stages; major components of the telescope mount and mirror cell are being manufactured at L and F Industries, Huntington Park, California, and installation will be completed in Chile in 1997.
		The governing body of the Magellan Consortium is the Magellan Council, made up of astronomers appointed by the member institutions in approximate proportion to their shares in the project.
		Behind Freedman's leadership of a Hubble Telescope Key Project stands years of effort by her and a few colleagues in calibrating the standard distance indicator to nearby galaxies--the Cepheid scale--to a great extent by means of observations of Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds using the present telescopes at Las Campanas.
	www.carnegieinstitution.org /news_960212.html (1286 words)

	Employment
		The positions are for three years, with the first two years spent as facilities scientist at the Las Campanas Observatory supporting the two 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes and their instruments by assisting with maintenance and upgrades, working with visiting astronomers, and participating in the general science operation of the Observatory.
		It is expected that their research programs will involve use of the Magellan telescopes, although there is no guaranteed time with the positions.
		Magellan Fellows do not have time on the Magellan telescopes as-of-right - they must apply for and win time in the same manner as external users through the Australian Time Allocation Committee.
	www.aao.gov.au /local/www/jobs/magellanfellow-mar06.html (979 words)

	Telescopes 10 times as powerful \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		Whereas backyard telescopes can reveal an impressively starry Orion Nebula, and the Hubble Space Telescope has been able to pick out newborn solar systems in that nebula, the next generation of telescopes will be able to pinpoint individual planets as they orbit within those solar systems.
		Both teams are applying knowledge from the building of past telescopes in their development of this one - and the scientists say that know-how is unlikely to go to waste.
		The UA team's Giant Magellan is based on the Steward mirror lab's previously built, enormous mirrors that have been installed in the Multiple-Mirror Telescope on Mount Hopkins in the Santa Rita Mountains, twin Magellan telescopes in Chile, and the Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/53211 (895 words)

	U joins consortium to build huge optical telescopes in Chile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		When used together, the two telescopes will have the light-gathering power of a single 9.2-meter mirror-making Magellan the largest private astronomy facility in the southern hemisphere, according to the Douglas O. Richstone, professor of astronomy.
		Construction of the Magellan I telescope and foundations for Magellan II began in 1994 in the desert foothills of the Chilean Andes.
		Currently, the U-M operates two smaller optical telescopes-the W.A. Hiltner telescope and the McGraw-Hill telescope in a consortium with MIT and Dartmouth at Kitt Peak in southern Arizona.
	www.umich.edu /~urecord/9596/Feb13_96/artcl01.htm (592 words)

	Magellan Telescopes -- Community Access
		As a result of an award made in the NSF's Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP), a total of twenty-seven nights (spread over at least five semesters) of observing time will be allocated to the astronomical community on the two 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory.
		Procedures and forms for applying for telescope time can be found at http://www.noao.edu/noaoprop/.
		NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
	www.noao.edu /gateway/magellan (432 words)

	UH -Top Education Stories - With billionaire's help, A&M and UT hope to see planets in a big, new way
		Already, two 20-foot Magellan telescopes are in Chile, where air flow over the mountains is relatively stable, decreasing distortion when astronomers try to peer beyond Earth's atmosphere.
		The Giant Magellan project is "a wish, a scheme, a plan, a plot, if you will, to build on the success of the (current) Magellan telescopes," said David Lambert, director of the McDonald Observatory.
		A larger telescope could allow them to see very distant objects in the universe so they can look back in time to when the first galaxies were being assembled.
	www.uh.edu /ednews/2004/hc/200408/20040805telescope.html (744 words)

	RedOrbit - Space - Astronomical Telescope Construction Project is Scheduled in Chile for Summer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Giant Magellan Telescope will join four smaller telescopes at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile where light pollution from cities is minimal and observing conditions are ideal.
		He said the team hopes to have the telescope fully functioning by 2016 and added that, once operating, it will allow astronomers to study objects much farther away from Earth and therefore further back in time to earlier epochs in the history of the universe.
		Eight institutions are in the Giant Magellan Telescope consortium, including the Carnegie Observatories, Harvard University, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, University of Arizona, University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display/?id=112304 (509 words)

	The Carnegie Observatories - Home
		The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT)—the product of more than a century of astronomical research and telescope-building by some of the world’s leading research institutions—will open a new window on the universe for the 21st century.
		The twin 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes are widely considered to be the best natural imaging telescopes in the world.
		The telescopes are located at Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory, high in the southern reaches of Chile's Atacama Desert.
	www.ociw.edu (402 words)

	MIT contributes component to Magellan telescopes - MIT News Office
		One of the twin Magellan telescopes of the Carnegie Observatories of Pasadena, CA saw its first stars on September 15 in Chile.
		Each partner of the Magellan project -- the Carnegie Institute of Washington, the University of Arizona, Harvard, the University of Michigan and MIT -- has its own scientific agenda for the new telescopes.
		The Magellan facility is located at Las Campanas Observatory, where the clear, dark skies of the Chilean Andes will allow a southern hemisphere view of the center of our own galaxy and our nearest neighboring galaxies.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2000/magic-1004.html (331 words)

	Meade LX50 Telescopes
		Magellan's two powerful microprocessors calculate the telescope's position in milliseconds and direct your manual movements of the telescope for fast, accurate object location.
		Magellan II is, however, the finest computer system available, short of an LX200.
		Telescope alignment by the 2-star method is accomplished in seconds.
	www.chriscamera.com /MeadeLX50.htm (862 words)

	Telescopes.com - Meade Magellan Telescope Computer Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Founded in 1972 and public since 1997, Meade is a world leader in the design and manufacture of Telescopes and Accessories for amateur astronomers.
		Meade Telescopes are innovative and technologically advanced products that are recognized to be among the best in the world.
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	www.telescopes.com /series/series_2654.html (161 words)

	Headlines@Hopkins: Johns Hopkins University News Releases
		Using massive clusters of galaxies as "cosmic telescopes," a research team led by a Johns Hopkins University astronomer has found what may be infant galaxies born in the first billion years after the beginning of the universe.
		Ford is the head of the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys Science Team, which also includes researchers from the Space Telescope Science Institute, PUC in Chile, and other universities around the world.
		The team's spectroscopic observations were made possible, he said, by gravitational lensing, the bending of light caused by gravity's warping of space in the presence of such massive objects as clusters of galaxies.
	www.jhu.edu /news_info/news/home06/jun06/cosmic.html (863 words)

	UA mirror lab to cast first mirror for giant Magellan telescope
		The University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory and the Carnegie Observatories of the Carnegie Institution have signed an agreement to produce the first mirror segment for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), a project of the multi-institutional GMT consortium.
		The eight partners in the GMT project consortium are the Carnegie Observatories, the University of Arizona, Harvard University, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin, and Texas A & M University.
		The performance of the twin Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas "has far exceeded our expectations," she said.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-12/uoa-uml121304.php (848 words)

	Scanning the Southern Skies
		And the telescopes can be outfitted with different instruments so that astronomers can simultaneously make different kinds of observations.
		The Magellan Project, as the twin-telescope undertaking is called, involves a consortium led by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1902 and devoted to scientific discovery.
		He is presently collaborating with an international team of 13 other astronomers to use this technique with a global network of radio telescopes; they will produce a "movie" showing the fine details of the expanding debris from an exploding star, "all in living color," Shapiro adds.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1997/03.20/ScanningtheSout.html (1992 words)

	Magellan Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The telescope enclosure for Magellan I, eclipsing the housing for Magellan II, still under construction, November 2000.
		The Magellan Project a collaboration between the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (OCIW), University of Arizona, Harvard University, University of Michigan, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to construct two 6.5 Meter optical telescopes in the southern hemisphere.
		The telescopes are located at Las Campanas Observatory, at an altitude of 8000 feet in the Chilean Andes, and operated by OCIW.
	www.lco.cl /magellan (162 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Astronomy Department Seeks
		The new twin telescopes, the first of which is scheduled to be functional in 1998, should give researchers the data to help map the distribution of galaxies and look at the evolution of the Universe.
		But when the telescope is completed, it will be one of the most useful astronomical instruments in the world, according to Kirshner.
		The telescope might also lead to clues on the composition of the "dark matter," or the mysterious 90 percent of the Universe's mass that astronomers say remains unseen.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=93355 (1088 words)

	Print the story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		MIT astrophysicists and their colleagues are excited about the latest milestone toward developing a giant telescope that among other things will allow direct observations of planets orbiting stars in solar systems beyond ours.
		The telescope will have a diameter of about 25.4 meters or 83 feet--making it about as wide as an eight-story building is tall.
		It builds on the successful heritage of the two 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes, the first of which began science operations in early 2001.
	www.physorg.com /printnews.php?newsid=2525 (347 words)

	Giant Magellan Telescope Group Gains New Partner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The telescope’s primary mirror will have a diameter of 80 foot (24.5 meters), or more than 4.5 times the collecting area of any current optical telescope and ten times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope.
		The mirrors for the giant telescope are being made using the existing infrastructure at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory.
		The mirror technology has been proven by the Magellan telescopes, which are the best natural imaging telescopes on the ground.
	www.as.arizona.edu /1145401357 (608 words)

	MIT Center for Space Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Magellan Telescopes The Magellan Project a collaboration between the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington(OCIW), University of Arizona,Harvard University, University of Michigan, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to construct two 6.5 Meter optical telescopes in the southern hemisphere.
		Haystack Observatory is the principal facility of the Northeast Radio Observatory Corporation (NEROC), a consortium of educational and research institutions involved in radio astronomy research in the northeastern United States.
		Its observing facilities consist of a 24-inch telescope, a 16-inch telescope, several 14- and 8-inch telescopes, and a 5.5-inch astrograph.
	space.mit.edu /observe.html (206 words)

	Space Flight
		GALEX The GALEX spacecraft is an Earth orbiting telescope that was launched on 4/28/2003 on board a Pegasus rocket.
		Spitzer Space Telescope The Spitzer Space Telescope, named for Dr. Lyman Spitzer (formerly SIRTF Space Infrared Telescope Facility) was launched on August 25, 2003, on board a Delta-II Heavy launch vehicle.
		The Spitzer telescope is the last of NASA's Great Observatories which includes the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
	astronomywebguide.com /links_nasas_space.html (9038 words)

	Magellan Telescope
		Twin 6.5-meter (21.3-ft.) telescopes, jointly owned and operated by the Carnegie Institution, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Universities of Arizona, Harvard, and Michigan.
		The first telescope, named after Walter Baade, began scientific operation in February 2001.
		The second telescope, named after Landon Clay, saw first light in September 2002.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/M/MagellanTel.html (133 words)

	Johns Hopkins Gazette \| June 12, 2006
		The arcs are star-forming galaxies that are behind the cluster approximately halfway across the universe.
		If longer spectroscopic observations of the three brightest candidate galaxies confirm that they are indeed in the early universe, these galaxies will provide astronomers their clearest view yet of the youngest galaxies ever seen.
		The results are based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory, Chile; the Las Campanas Magellan Telescopes in Chile; and Gemini North, a telescope operated by the Gemini Observatory/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.
	www.jhu.edu /gazette/2006/12jun06/12galaxy.html (570 words)

	The Giant Magellan Telescope Group Grows \| SpaceRef - Your Space Reference
		The telescope's primary mirror will have a diameter of 80 feet (24.5 meters) with more than 4.5 times the collecting area of any current optical telescope and 10 times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope.
		The mirrors for the giant telescope are being made using the existing equipment at the University of Arizona, Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory.
		The lab made the 6.5-meter Magellan telescope mirrors at Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory, and the 8.4-meter Large Binocular Telescope mirrors on Mt. Graham.
	www.spaceref.com /news/viewpr.html?pid=19623 (927 words)

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	Universe Today - Work Begins on Magellan Giant Telescope
		Mon, 13 Dec 2004 - When it's complete, the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will be the world's largest observatory, with a primary mirror 25.4 metres (83 feet) across - 4.5 times the collecting power of any telescope on Earth.
		The Magellan telescopes have proven to be the best natural imaging telescopes on the ground, due in large part to the genius of its Project Scientist, Carnegie Observatories’ Stephen Shectman, and Roger Angel and his team at the Steward Mirror Lab,” she continued.
		The mirrors for the GMT will be made using the existing infrastructure at Steward that made the 6.5-meter Magellan mirrors and the 8.4-meter Large Binocular Telescope mirrors on Mt. Graham.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/work_begins_mgto.html?13122004 (656 words)

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