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Project overview

LBT Organization

LBT home page in Arizona (THE web reference on the LBT).

Presentation (Aug. 2002) of the status of the project by John Hill (LBT Technical Director) at the SPIE 2002 meeting

Technical Publications related to the LBT Project.

Address list of LBT people as listed at the board page in Tucson.

The LBT Board page in Tucson, Arizona.

Other interesting links

Links to our suppliers

Mt. Graham International Observatory. The observatory site where the LBT is being built.

AIRY Astronomical Image Restoration in interferometrY. An Italian collaboration to develop methods and software for restoration of interferometric images, especially for the LBT.

Atmosphere Projects MPIA page covering various atmosphere studies for the LBT adaptive optics. It also covers the on-going SCIDAR project for Mt. Graham to characterize the atmospheric turbulence above the LBT.

We are using the Gen-II CCD controllers for the Off-axis units from the CCD Laboratory at San Diego State University (SDSU).
Feinmess Dresden has constructed the Off-axis stage assembly.
KARK Maschinenbau Brandenburg (KMB) has manufactured the outer structure housing the complete AGW units.
Industrie Electronic Schmitz GmbH has supplied us with the Local Control Unit (LCU) PCs.
alimex Metallhandelsgesellschaft mbH has supplied us with the Off-axis baseplate.
SMOS - Smart Microoptical Solutions has supplied us with the micro-lenslet arrays for the off-axis Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors.