New Vistas in Astronomy Lecture: LBTO, The Largest Optical Telescope in the World
Schedule
Thu Mar 27 2025 at 09:00 am to 10:00 am
UTC-07:00Location
Green Valley West Social Center | Green Valley, AZ
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*** New Vistas in Astronomy is FREE and open to the public. You do not need to be a member of Green Valley Rec (GVR) to attend this lecture. For those unable to attend in person, this lecture will also livestream at ***Join Whipple Observatory for the New Vistas lecture series as Dr. Joannah Hinz, the Deputy Director of the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (LBTO) discusses the largest optical telescope in the world.
The Large Binocular Telescope conducts observations with two 8.4m- diameter mirrors on a common mount, providing a collecting area equal to a single 11.8m mirror and interferometric capability with an edge-to-edge baseline of 22.8m. With these attributes, the LBT is the first of the emerging generation of Extremely Large Telescopes.
The telescope is located on Mt Graham in southeast Arizona, which at 3200m is one of the highest observatory sites in North America. The LBT Observatory operates as an international collaboration with partners in Germany, Italy, and the United States.
About Dr. Hinz
Dr. Joannah Hinz is the Deputy Director of the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (LBTO), a facility of the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona, and an Associate Research Professor at the University of Arizona. She was previously an Associate Staff Scientist at the MMT Observatory, a collaboration between the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian Institution.
Dr. Hinz’s research has centered on infrared observations of nearby galaxies using the Spitzer and Herschel telescopes among others, with interests in dust content and outer disk evolution.
She received her Bachelor of Physics from MIT in 1995, and her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 2003.
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Green Valley West Social Center, 1111 S Via Arcoiris,Green Valley, Arizona, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
