JAPANESE NATIONAL LARGE TELESCOPE AND RELATED ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENTS

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1 ANNOUNCEMENT JAPANESE NATIONAL LARGE TELESCOPE AND RELATED ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENTS Proceedings of the International Symposium on Large Telescopes, held in Tolcyo, Japan, 29 November - 2 December, 1988 Edited by T.KOGURE Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Japan and A. T. TOKUNAGA Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, U.S.A. Please note that a hardbound edition of this special of Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 160, Nos. 1-2 (October, 1989), is available from the publisher. ISBN Prices: DB. 285,-/US $149.-/ 94.- Astrophysics and Space Science 160: 395, 1989.

2 VOLUME CONTENTS Volume 160 Nos. 1-2 ARTICLES ANDO, H., T. NOGUCHI, M. NAKAGIRI, A. MIYASHITA, Y. YAMASHITA, K. NARIAI, and H. TANABE / Evaluation of the JNLT Site 183 ANGEL, J. R. P. / Recent Progress on the Columbus Project and the Mirror Laboratory Program 55 BABA, N. / Spectral Speckle Interferometry 373 BARBIERI, C. / The Galileo Project. A 3.5 m Italian Telescope Facility 119 BARR, L. D. / The U.S. National 8 m Telescope Project 71 BECKERS, J. M. and F. MERKLE / Adaptive Optics for Large Telescopes 345 BECKSTETTE, K., M. KOCHEL, and E. HEYNACHER / Large Mirror Figuring and Testing 207 BOSCH, I., D. MOURARD, and A. LABEYRIE / Can the Optical Very Large Array be Coupled with the JNLT? 355 CANNON, R. / Some Comments on Large Telescope Astronomy in Britain and Australia 275 CHILI, A. / Infrared Interferometry with Single Telescopes 369 ELLIS, R. S. / The UK Large Telescope Project 107 ELLIS, R. S. / David Brown (Obituary) 393 ENARD, D. / Concept and Status of the VLT Project 45 GILLINGHAM, P. R. / A Means for Improving Drives 225 HALL, D. N. B. / Characteristics of Mauna Kea Relating to the Japan National Large Telescope 243 HALL, D. N. B. / Summary of the Symposium 387 HAYAKAWA, S. / Cosmology and Large Telescopes 7 HAYASHI, S. / Cooperation Aspects ofinternational Observatories 263 HILLTNER, W. A. and S. A. SHECTMAN / Progress of the Magellan Project 103 HOENESS, H. W., R. MUELLER, E. W. RODECK, and F. B. SIEBERS / Spin-Cast Zerpdur Mirror Substrates of the 8 m Class and Lightweight Substrates for Secondary Mirrors 193 HUGENELL, H. / The Design of the Central-Axis Reflector (ZAS) 231 ISHIGURO, M. / Submillimeter Interferometer 377 ISOBE, S. / Optical Interferometer between JNLT and WMKT 361 ITOH, N., Y. YAMASHITA, and T. NOGUCHI/Mechanical Structure of JNLT 165 lye, M. / Active Optics Experiments for Thin Meniscus Mirror 149

3 KAIFU, N. / Radio Astronomy and Very Large Telescopes 27 KODAIRE, K. / Outline of the JNLT Project 137 KOGURE, T. and A. T.TOKUNAGA / Preface x KOZAI, Y. / Welcome Address of the Director of the National Astronomical Observatory, Japan 3 LEE, T. J. / Operational and Technological Developments for UKIRT 249 LENA, P. and F. MERKLE / The Interferometric Mode of the European Very Large Telescope 363 MACK, B., D. HARMAN, S. ATKINSON, and C. GARCIA / A Progress Report on the Design of the 8 m Aperture Optical/Infrared Telescope 111 MAIHARA, T. / Infrared Instruments for JNLT 313 McLAREN, R. / Recent Developments of Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope 255 MANNERY, E. J., W. A. SIEGMUND, and C. L. HULL / The Performance of the Apache Point Observatory 3.5 m Telescope 269 MEDWADOWSKI, S. J. / Structure of the Keck Telescope - An Overview 33 MIKAMI, I., N. ITOH, K. MIYAWAKI, H. ANDO, T. NOGUCHI, M. NAKAGIRI, and E. WATANABE / Dome Design of JNLT 173 NISHIMURA, T. / Infrared Detector for Mid-Infrared Astronomy 325 NARIAI, K. / Fast Optics for Large Telescopes 159 ODA, M / How the SPACE Astronomy has Extended the Horizon of Astronomy 19 OKAMURA, S. / Optical Instruments for JNLT 297 SMITH, H. J. / A Decade of Cost-Reduction in Very Large Telescopes (The SST as Prototype of Special Purpose Telescopes) 123 SMITH, W. S. / Large Mirror Polishing and Figuring 215 SPANGENBERG-JOLLEY, J. / Large Mirror Fabrication of Low Expansion Glasses 199 TOKUNAGA, A. T. / Infrared Detector Arrays and Some Applications to Spectroscopy 333 WANG SHOUGUAN / Some New Astronomical Facilities in China 287 WATANABE, M., Y. AGEISHI, and K. NAKAMURA / Knowledge Engineering Application in the Problem of Supporting a Large Mirror 221 WOON-YING WONG and L. D. BARR / The Planning of NOAO 8 m Telescope Enclosure and Facilities 87 YAMASHITA, Y. / Finite Element Analysis of a Meniscus Mirror 145

4 Fig. 6. Fabrication in progress-tube on temporary supports, front view (photo courtesy I. Steffey). (Medwadowski, p. 39).

5 Fig. 7. Active support experiment at a tilted orientation. (lye, p. 154). Fig. 5. Fabrication in progress-tube on temporary supports, side view (photo courtesy J. Steffey). (Medwadbwski, p. 38).

6 Fig. 6. Demonstration prototype of an inflatable dome. This prototype is being tested at La Silla Observatory. (Enard, p.52).

7 DC TORQUE MOTOR WHEEL Fig. 9. AZ drive mechanism. (Itoh et al., p. 171). Fig m telescope. (Itoh et al., p. 170).

8 Fig. 3b. (Hiigenell, p. 232). Fig. 14. Photograph of the ZAS-model at the Tokyo Symposium on Large Telescopes, (Hiigenell, p.239).

9 Fig. 5. Light weight Zerodur mirror made by 'Schott Glaswerke, Mainz'. (Hiigenell, p. 233).

10 Fig. 3a. (Hiigenell, p. 232).