One of those groups installed a telescope there and nicknamed an instrument that attached to it "Lucifer." The Vatican Observatory was founded in 1891 and is based at the papal summer residence in ...

LUCIFER is a powerful near-infrared camera/spectrograph system being added to the Large Binocular Telescope, the world's largest optical telescope.

April 23, 2010. A new instrument for the world’s largest optical telescope, the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) on Mount Graham, allows astronomers to observe the faintest and most distant ...

LUCIFER 1 has been built by a consortium of German institutes and will be followed by an identical twin instrument that will be delivered to the telescope in early 2011.

LUCIFER is a new instrument developed by the UA in collaboration with scientists from around the globe, including Germany and Italy. LUCIFER will be placed on the Large Binocular Telescope on Mt ...

LUCIFER 1 and its twin are mounted at the focus points of the LBT's two giant 8.4-meter (27.6 foot) diameter telescope mirrors. Each instrument is cooled to -213 degrees Celsius in order to ...

LUCIFER 1 and its twin are mounted at the focus points of the LBT’s two giant 8.4-meter (27.6 foot) diameter telescope mirrors. Each instrument is cooled to -213 degrees Celsius in order to ...