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Large Binocular Telescope Observatory

Videos

2017 March 29 - The co-orbital asteroids of Jupiter, also known as the 'Trojan asteroids'. The prograde asteroids are shown in white, and 2015 BZ509 (with a trail, shown in green) appears later. The planets and asteroids have been enlarged for visibility.
   
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2016 Sep 20: Lift of LINC-NIRVANA from the first floor to the telescope instrument platform ​ (courtesy of T. Herbst) See here for more details!
2016 Sep 19: LINC-NIRVANA leaves its temporay housing (summit clean-room) where it spent its last 10 months... (courtesy of T. Herbst) See here for more details!
2015 Nov 16:    LINC-NIRVANA bench ascension from the ground floor of the observatory ​to the instrument platform on the telescope (courtesy of T. Herbst) See here for more details!
2016 May 12:    ​Timelapse of the first few hours of an observing night at the Large Binocular Telescope. Each frame is a 15 second exposure. (Mark Norris)

Picture
Looking to the edge of the universe
A video from "The Art of Movement" CNN series (2014)

2014:    Time lapse of the Milky Way over the Large Binocular Telescope (Scott Adams)
LBT Ground Breaking Adaptive Optics Technology Video  (September 2010)

Transportation of the first 8.4m primary mirror from the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab to the LBT Enclosure on Mt. Graham.
Movie of the construction of the telescope, from the Azimuth Frame to the first Mirror Cell  (created by T. Herbst from webcam images)