Re: [Utah-astronomy] That's a big scope

IIRC, the plans were originally for a 100-meter telescope, but they discovered they couldn't afford it. That acronym was to be the OWL Telescope, for OverWhelmingly Large Telescope. On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net>wrote:

And I always thought the Kecks, at 10 meters, were big.

Now I see that Europe is about to break ground on a 39 meter!

http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann13099/

Funny that they're calling it the ELT. To them that means Extremely Large Telescope, but to aviators it means Emergency Locator Transmitter. :)