Ground based survey telescopes have much wider fields of view.
A new rapid survey telescope, SkyMapper, is under construction.
The two survey telescopes will collect more data every night than all the other instruments on the VLT combined.
In the tradition of the UKST this is a survey telescope with a wide field of view.
Mr. Gunn is designing the survey telescope to offer the widest possible view of the sky while maintaining a high level of precision.
Driven by digital imaging, automated survey telescopes, and space-based observatories, we have become much more aware of the full diversity of objects orbiting the Sun.
An infrared snapshot of a region in the constellation Carina, near the Milky Way was taken shortly after the survey telescope ejected its cover.
The VST is a wide-field survey telescope with a field of view twice as broad as the full Moon.
The Destiny proposal has been superseded by the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, currently under construction, is expected to perform a comprehensive, high-resolution survey starting in the late 2010s.
