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Enjoy these insightful and educational video clips drawn from over 70 hours of interviews with the world's leading figures in astronomy, shot during the filming of 400 Years of the Telescope.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope cannot do spectroscopy
Philip Pinto - Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)

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What is survey astronomy?
Philip Pinto - Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)

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Why I became an astronomer
Philip Pinto - Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)

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Amber instrument
Fredrik Rantakyro - ESO, Very Large Telescope (VLT)

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Building a bigger telescope with interferometry
Fredrik Rantakyro - ESO, Very Large Telescope (VLT)

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An intro to the delay line tunnel
Fredrik Rantakyro - ESO, Very Large Telescope (VLT)

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Finito instrument
Fredrik Rantakyro - ESO, Very Large Telescope (VLT)

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A quick intro to the VLT instrument lab
Fredrik Rantakyro - ESO, Very Large Telescope (VLT)

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Interferometry analogy
Fredrik Rantakyro - ESO, Very Large Telescope (VLT)

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The Very Large Telescope (VLT) Midi instrument
Fredrik Rantakyro - ESO, Very Large Telescope (VLT)

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Overview of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) instrument lab
Fredrik Rantakyro - ESO, Very Large Telescope (VLT)

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Challenging old world views
Bo Reipurth - Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii

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How I became an astronomer
Bo Reipurth - Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii

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Kepler steals Tycho's notes
Bo Reipurth - Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii

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Knowledge through books, not nature
Bo Reipurth - Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii

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Stella Nova
Bo Reipurth - Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii

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An introduction to Tycho
Bo Reipurth - Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii

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Tycho meets Kepler
Bo Reipurth - Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii

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Tycho moves to Prague
Bo Reipurth - Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii

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Reaction to Tycho's book
Bo Reipurth - Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii

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Tycho's death
Bo Reipurth - Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii

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Active versus adaptive optics
Riccardo Scarpa - Gran Telescopio de los Canarias

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Adaptive optics
Riccardo Scarpa - Gran Telescopio de los Canarias

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Current debates in cosmology
Riccardo Scarpa - Gran Telescopio de los Canarias

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The Gran Canarios Telescopio (GTC)
Riccardo Scarpa - Gran Telescopio de los Canarias

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