Mayall Telescope Modification (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Mayall Telescope Modification

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Under the BigBOSS proposal, the NOAO Mayall Telescope (left) would be modified (inset) to cover a wider field of view and equipped with a new spectrographic instrument capable of precisely measuring nearly 5,000 galaxies or stars simultaneously.

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Mayall Telescope photo by Pete Marenfeld (NOAO/AURA/NSF)

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