list of optical telescopes

Several hundred more observatories (many optical) are listed here.

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Name	Abbreviation	Remarks	Location
Anglo-Australian Observatory	AAO	3.9 metre Anglo-Australian Telescope, ANU's Siding Spring 2.3 m Telescope, 1.2 metre UK Schmidt Telescope	Coonabarabran, New South Wales (Australia)
David Dunlap Observatory	DDO	\| Richmond Hill, Ontario (Canada)
McDonald Observatory	\| 11m Hobby-Eberly Telescope, 2.7m Harlan J. Smith Telescope, 2.1m Otto Struve Telescope \| Davis Mountains, 450 miles west of Austin, Texas (USA)
Infrared Optical Telescope Array	IOTA	\| Amado, Arizona (USA)
Keck Telescopes	Keck	Two 10m optical/infrared telescopes (occasionally used as an interferometer)	Mauna Kea, Hawaii (USA)
Magdelena Ridge Observatory	MRO	Interferometer which will have up to ten telescopes, providing the highest resolution optical images in the world	Magdelena Ridge, New Mexico (USA)
Nordic Optical Telescope	NOT	2.6m optical/infrared telescope.	Canary Islands, Spain
Overwhelmingly Large Telescope	OWL	Conceptual design of a telescope with a single aperture of 100 meters in diameter.	Still on research status.
Southern African Large Telescope	SALT	Biggest telescope in the southern hemisphere of the Earth.	Karoo, South Africa
Very Large Telescope	VLT	Four separate 8m optical/infrared telescopes (occasionally used as an interferometer).	Paranal Observatory, Chile
William Herschel Telescope	WHT	4.2m optical/infrared telescope.	Canary Islands, Spain
LAT	70 inch Amature telescope, under development	TBD, California (USA)

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