Plans
Below are selected telescopes that are still in the conceptual/proposed stage or still under construction.
- Under construction or planned construction
- European Extremely Large Telescope 39.3 m
- Thirty Meter Telescope 30 m
- Giant Magellan Telescope 7×8.4 m mirrors = 24.5 m aperture (21.4 m equivalent area)
- Large Synoptic Survey Telescope 8.4 m (2015 first light planned)
- James Webb Space Telescope 6.5 m (2018 launch planned)
- Automated Planet Finder 2.4 m (almost complete)
- Pan-STARRS 4 x 1.8 m (1 complete)
- Magdalena Ridge Observatory Telescope Array 10 x 1.4 m
- Thai National Telescope Project 2.4 m
- Advanced Technology Solar Telescope 4 m (see also list of solar telescopes)
- International Liquid Mirror Telescope 4 m
- HDRT 22m equiv.
- 3.6 m Devasthal Optical Telescope (2013 first light planned)
- Proposed or planned
- ALPACA telescope, 8 m liquid mirror
- Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST), 8-15m space telescope
- Chinese Future Giant Telescope (CFGT). Proposed optical telescope with a 30 meter diameter primary mirror.
- Chinese Giant Solar Telescope (CGST) China aim to build a very large infrared and optical solar telescope, with the spatial resolution expected to be equivalent to an 8m-diameter telescope and light-gathering power equivalent to a 5m-diameter full aperture telescope
- Formerly proposed or planned
- Overwhelmingly Large Telescope 60–100 m study concluded
- Euro 50 50 m study concluded
- Large Atacama Telescope
- Hubble Origins Probe study concluded
Read more about this topic: List Of Largest Optical Reflecting Telescopes
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