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You are producing a telescope with a nearly 40 meter diameter the focal point of the primary will be 743 meters away. If you wish to point the telescope at anything I don't think it will be easy to put anything there at all. With telescopes that size you definitely aren't putting humans at the...

Well its horses for courses there. It has sufficient collecting area that you'll be able to do things like spectroscopy of the atmosphere of planets at nearby stars. Something JWST can't really do as well, however JWST which is above the atmosphere and all the distortions it brings will be...

The 200" mirror on Mount Palomar is not a convex mirror but a concave one.