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Building a Giant Telescope
The Giant Magellan Telescope’s William Burgett talks about managing a project on a massive scale.
Nighttime interior telescope rendering. [Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation]
William Burgett is the project manager of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT)—a ground-based extremely large telescope currently under construction at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. When the GMT is completed, it is expected to be the largest Gregorian optical-infrared telescope ever built, with a primary light-collecting surface 25.4 m in diameter.
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