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Mar 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007msngr.127....2c&link_type=abstract

The Messenger, vol. 127, p. 2-3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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At ESO, we will all remember 2006 as the year of the birth of the E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope). The ges-tation period has been quite long. Astron-omers have been discussing for many years the wondrous scientific programmes they hoped to conduct with an ELT. I re-member the enthusiasm of scientists who gathered in the first workshops organised by OPTICON, in Edinburgh in 2000, fol-lowed by the two-week-long Leiden meet-ing in 2001. These were followed by a number of meetings and workshops, one of them in conjunction with “Exploring the cosmic frontier”, in Berlin in May 2004, which prefigured the science vision dis-cussions our community is now having in the framework of ASTRONET. An im-portant point about these discussions is that many of them were shared with our colleagues from across the Atlantic. A worldwide meeting took place as an IAU Symposium, in Cape Town in November 2005. Also in 2005, under the leadership of Isobel Hook, the first European ELT science case appeared, in the form of a short and well-illustrated document geared to decision makers followed by a lengthy volume for astronomers.

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