New 'Aristarchos' telescope on Mt. Helmos

[Ellinas]

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The new "Aristarchos" telescope, the largest in Greece and amongst the newest such observatories in Europe, was inaugurated atop Mount Helmos, in the mountainous Kalavryta township of northwest Peloponnese, on Tuesday.

"From the first moment when we undertook responsibility for the country's governance, the Greek state embraced the efforts of the astronomers for the creation of the Helmos Observatory," Development Minister Dimitris Sioufas said on Tuesday during a brief address.

According to the minister, the European Union allocated five million euros for the project, which was matched by four million euros from national coffers.

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[Prokomenos]

One of the most amazing things is to able to look into space so far out.