page_title: Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
section_title: Large Binocular Telescope
hierarchical_section_title: Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam / Participation in large international research projects / Large Binocular Telescope
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Gebäude des Large Binocular Telescope, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam - R. Arlt
context_page_description: Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam is a German research institute. It is the successor of the Berlin Observatory founded in 1700 and of the Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam founded in 1874. The latter was the world's first observatory to emphasize explicitly the research area of astrophysics. The AIP was founded in 1992, in a re-structuring following the German reunification.
  The AIP is privately funded and member of the Leibniz Association. It is located in Babelsberg in the state of Brandenburg, just west of Berlin, though the Einstein Tower solar observatory and the great refractor telescope on Telegrafenberg in Potsdam belong to the AIP.
  The key topics of the AIP are cosmic magnetic fields on various scales and extragalactic astrophysics. Astronomical and astrophysical fields studied at the AIP range from solar and stellar physics to stellar and galactic evolution to cosmology.
  The institute also develops research technology in the fields of spectroscopy and robotic telescopes.
context_section_description: The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) is a new telescope on Mt. Grahams in Arizona. The LBT consists of 2 huge 8.4 m telescopes on a common mount. With their 110 square meter area, the LBT is the largest telescope in the world on a single mount, only surpassed by the combined VLTs and Kecks.
caption: Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona
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