Talk type: Telescopes and instrumentation

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    The ESO VISTA telescope and the VISTA Hemisphere Survey
    Survey operations with the VISTA telescope with it wide field near IR camera started in Feb 2010, following a science verification phase that started in Oct...
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    The European Extremely Large Telescope: science goals and technology challenges.
    Teams from industry, universities and institutes across Europe are contributing to the design and development phase of the European Southern Observatory's...
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    The first year of science with the James Webb Space Telescope
    The Webb Telescope, the next flagship astrophisical mission from NASA, ESA and the CSA, will be launch on December 18th 2021. With a 6.5 m primary mirror, it...
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    The fourth Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission and the scientific prospects of the repaired HST
    The Hubble Space Telescope has been given new life with the successful Servicing Mission 4 (SM4). The goal of each servicing mission to the telescope has been...
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    The GREGOR Fabry-Pérot Interferometer: Status, prospects, and scientific aims
    The GREGOR Fabry-Pérot Interferometer (GFPI) is one of the first-light post-focus instruments for the German 1.5-meter GREGOR solar telescope at the...
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    The Iranian National Observatory project and its science case
    The plan of the Iranian National Observatory (INO) is to build within the next 5 years an active 3 meter telescope with a possible adaptive secondary on a...
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    The new laboratory for innovation in Opto-Mechanics at the IAC
    What would a 35m-scale narrow field-of-view telescope look like that is designed for high dynamic range direct imaging science? The EU has charged the IAC in a...
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    The Planck mission: Early Results
    The European Space Agency's Planck satellite was launched on 14 May 2009, and has been surveying the sky stably and continuously since 13 August 2009. Its...
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    The SARA Consortium: A Virtual Astronomy Department
    For over 20 years, the Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA) has operated a remotely-accessible 1-m-class telescope at the Kitt Peak...