Talk:Giant Magellan Telescope

Combining images electronically
Why is it necessary to mount all seven mirrors in the same frame? Could the images of seven similar but independent telescopes be combined electronically? Is a charged coupled device (CCD) sufficiently sensitive to detect one photon or is it necessary to combine the light of all seven mirrors to trigger a pixel in a CCD? Advances in CCDs could make large telescopes obsolete. My Flatley (talk) 06:13, 27 January 2010 (UTC)


 * To answer your questions:
 * No, independent telescopes cannot be combined eletronically to produce equivalent performance. While such a collection could collect as much light as a single larger telescope, it would not have the same resolving power.  Separate telescopes can be combined optically, using an optical interferometer, but even that is more limited than the GMT's solution.  The details are complex; see diffraction limit.
 * Yes, CCDs can detect single photons. Scientists talk about the "quantum efficiency" of a detector, the chance that a single incoming photon will be detected.  For a CCD, this can be greater than 90% at short wavelengths.  Astronomers love CCDs for this reason, but it means that there is very limited room for improvement in sensitivity.  (Research still goes on to improve this at longer wavelengths.)
 * 71.41.210.146 (talk) 02:14, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

I have thought about this some. I see no reason why seven equal telescopes at the same location could not produce an image equivalent to a single multi mirror telescope with seven mirrors in the same frame. The multi mirror is simply more user friendly. It requires less tweaking. The multi mirror creates the final image in less time, as the seven independent images are combined before each independent image is mathematically discernable by a computer program. For very dim images that is important. My Flatley (talk) 18:04, 2 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Multi-telescope arrays in the visual spectrum are rare and very difficult to operate. CHARA array is one.   Will Beback    talk    23:41, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Add: modern detectors/spectrometers are very expencive. 7 telescopes = 7 detectors. PavelSI (talk) 11:06, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Images?
After I translated the corresponding German article (cf. de:Giant Magellan Telescope for the Dutch Wikipedia (cf. nl:Giant Magellan Telescope), I contacted the GMTO organisation by e-mail, requesting them to license their photos according to Creative Commons, for use on Wikipedia.

HHahn (Talk)  15:30, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

This page have been translated into FR...
... so, this is to thank every contributor. Hop ! Kikuyu3 (talk) 12:11, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

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Location
I'm pretty certain that the location given here is wrong. Based on imaged from the GMTO website, looking at the road layout and the scenery around it, I'm pretty sure that a better location would be: -- johantheghost (talk) 09:37, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
 * 29° 2.893'S 70° 41.015'W
 * Thanks, ; the previous location seems to have been for another part of the same observatory. I hope my southward adjustment got this right; my experience with Wikidata is not extensive. Jim.henderson (talk) 23:18, 31 May 2020 (UTC)