Abstract
They say things are bigger in Texas, and it seems that astronomers in that state want to do their part to add to the mythology.Imagine an optical telescope with a primary mirror more than 5 times the diameter of the legendary 5.1‐m Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory and 8 times the mirror area of the Keck Telescope, currently the largest in operation. Frank Bash, director of the McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas at Austin, already has. At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Bash proposed the development of an Extremely Large Telescope, which will use 169 hexagonal mirror segments to create the equivalent of a primary mirror that is 29 m in diameter.
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