The Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT)
"The 1.8 meter Alice P. Lennon Telescope and its Thomas J. Bannan Astrophysics Facility, known together as the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), is a Gregorian telescope observing in the optical and infrared situated on Mount Graham in southeast Arizona, United States. It achieved its first light in 1993." - wiki source [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Advanced_Technology_Telescope]
"VATT is part of the Mount Graham International Observatory [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Graham_International_Observatory] and is operated by the Vatican Observatory [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Observatory], one of the oldest astronomical research institutions in the world, in partnership with The University of Arizona [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Arizona]."
"The telescope was then disassembled, shipped by freighter to the U.S.A. and transported overland to Mount Graham in 2002. The Italian partners also played a key role (along with Arizona) in developing and building the unique adaptive secondary mirror systems. They are also providing the Large Binocular Cameras, the first facility instruments for the LBT and are involved in LINC-NIRVANA.
LBT Beteiligungsgesellschaft (LBTB) (25 percent). The LBTB is a consortium of five German institutes and observatories led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (MPIA). Besides MPIA, the Max-Planck-Institutes for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching (MPE) and for Radio Astronomy in Bonn (MPIfR), as well as the Astrophysical Institute of Potsdam (AIP) and the Center for Astronomy of Heidelberg University (Landessternwarte Heidelberg, LSW) are members.
The LBTB is developing the LUCIFER instruments for near infrared imaging and spectroscopy. LUCIFER 1 and 2 will operate in both “seeing” and diffraction-limited modes, the latter fully exploiting the capabilities of the adaptive secondary mirrors." - archives org source - [https://web.archive.org/web/20110725231212/http://medusa.as.arizona.edu/lbto/firstbinocularlight_press_release.htm]
Could they be waiting for a celestial event? Mainstream propaganda is already pushing an "asteroid" cataclysm. youtube source [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0q8vYzLno4], Nasa "predicts an asteroid in 2029" - youtube source [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjUAB0TwJU]
I've read some stuff about an asteroid a few years ago, was on all the actual science pages, but it's been gone (?) for a while now.
Anyway the 2029 is accurate but that's not when it's going to hit, it's going to pass by in that 2028-2029 window. If it's the same asteroid we're talking about, this thing is over half the size of Texas. For reference, the Yukutan Peninsula ( dinosaur killer ) was approx the size of Mt. Everest.
So.. this thing is going to pass earth, and it may / may not pass through, what's called the 'key hole'. Basically the key hole is the line of Earth's gravity. Passes AT key hole or before, she's going to miss next pass. Passes BETWEEN earth and key hole - we're in trouble.
The estimate I was reading and seeing back then was 2132 would be impact if it passes the key hole. Again, been quite a few years, I'll see if I can find those older articles.