Japanese National Large Telescope and Related Engineering Developments: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Large Telescopes, held in Tokyo, Japan, 29 November – 2 December, 1988

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Welcome Address of the Director of the National Astronomical Observatory....Pages 1-1
Opening Address of the Chairman of the Organizing Committee....Pages 3-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Cosmology and Large Telescopes....Pages 7-17
How the Space Astronomy Has Extended the Horizon of Astronomy....Pages 19-25
Radio Astronomy and Very Large Telescopes....Pages 27-29
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Structure of the Keck Telescope — An Overview....Pages 33-43
Concept and Status of the VLT Project....Pages 45-53
Recent Progress on the Columbus Project and the Mirror Laboratory Program....Pages 55-70
The U.S. National 8 M Telescope Project....Pages 71-85
The Planning of Noao 8 M Telescope Enclosure and Facilities....Pages 87-101
Progress of the Magellan Project....Pages 103-105
The Uk Large Telescope Project....Pages 107-110
A Progress Report on the Design of the 8 M Aperture Optical/Infrared Telescope....Pages 111-118
The Galileo Project....Pages 119-122
A Decade of Cost-Reduction in Very Large Telescopes (The SST as Prototype of Special-Purpose Telescopes)....Pages 123-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Outline of the JNLT Project....Pages 137-144
Finite Element Analysis of a Meniscus Mirror....Pages 145-147
Active Optics Experiments for thin Meniscus Mirror....Pages 149-157
Fast Optics for Large Telescopes....Pages 159-163
Mechanical Structure of JNLT....Pages 165-172
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Dome Design of JNLT....Pages 173-181
Evaluation of the JNLT Site....Pages 183-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Spin-Cast Zerodur Mirror Substrates of the 8 M Class and Lightweight Substrates for Secondary Mirrors....Pages 193-197
Large Mirror Fabrication of Low Expansion Glasses....Pages 199-205
Large Mirror Figuring and Testing....Pages 207-214
Large Mirror Polishing and Figuring....Pages 215-219
Knowledge Engineering Application in the Problem of Supporting a Large Mirror....Pages 221-224
A Means for Improving Telescope Drives....Pages 225-230
The Design of the Central-Axis Reflector (ZAS)....Pages 231-239
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Characteristics of Mauna Kea Relating to the Japan National Large Telescope....Pages 243-248
Operational and Technological Developments For Ukirt....Pages 249-253
Recent Developments At Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope....Pages 255-262
Cooperation Aspects of International Observatories....Pages 263-268
The Performance of the Apache Point Observatory 3.5 M Telescope....Pages 269-274
Some Comments on Large Telescope Astronomy in Britain and Australia....Pages 275-280
Lessons For New Large Telescopes From The AAT....Pages 281-286
Some New Astronomical Facilities In China....Pages 287-294
Front Matter....Pages 295-295
Optical Instruments For JNLT....Pages 297-311
Infrared Instruments For JNLT....Pages 313-323
Infrared Detector For Mid-Infrared Astronomy....Pages 325-332
Front Matter....Pages 295-295
Infrared Detector Arrays and Some Applications to Spectroscopy....Pages 333-343
Adaptive Optics for Large Telescopes....Pages 345-351
Front Matter....Pages 353-353
Can the Optical Very Large Array be Coupled with the JNLT?....Pages 355-360
Optical Interferometer Between JNLT and WMKT....Pages 361-362
The Interferometric Mode of the European Very Large Telescope....Pages 363-368
Infrared Interferometry with Single Telescopes....Pages 369-371
Spectral Speckle Interferometry....Pages 373-376
Submillimeter Interferometry....Pages 377-384
Front Matter....Pages 385-385
Summary of the Symposium....Pages 387-392
Obituary....Pages 393-394
Back Matter....Pages 395-404