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Depicted here is just one small part of the polishing process of the enormous 4-meter mirror used in the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope located at Kitt Peak National Observatory. An identical mirror was manufactured for the Víctor M.

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English: Depicted here is just one small part of the polishing process of the enormous 4-meter mirror used in the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope located at Kitt Peak National Observatory. An identical mirror was manufactured for the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory just a few years later.
Date 13 January 2022, 15:51 (upload date)
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