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Zelenchukskaya

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Zelenchukskaya

Site of what was formerly the world's largest single-mirror optical telescope, with a mirror of 6 m/19.7 ft diameter, in the Caucasus Mountains of Russia. At the same site is the RATAN 600 radio telescope, consisting of radio reflectors in a circle of 600 m/2,000 ft diameter. Both instruments are operated by the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg.



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Then it mentions the relatively unsuccessful 6-metre reflector of the Russians at Zelenchukskaya, before going on to some modern designs such as the 3.
 
 
 
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