Organizations Filed Purposes:
THE LBT CORPORATION'S PURPOSE IS TO MAINTAIN AND OPERATE A LARGE OPTICAL OBSERVATORY FOR ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH WHICH WILL EXPAND MANKIND'S KNOWLEDGE OF SPACE FROM THE VICINITY OF EARTH TO THE EDGE OF THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE.
TO CONSTRUCT AND OPERATE A RESEARCH FACILITY KNOWN AS THE LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPE.
A TOTAL OF 237 NIGHTS WERE OFFERED TO THE LBTO PARTNERS AND SCIENCE STAFF IN 2019 FOR SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATIONS, WHILE 75 WERE DEVOTED TO ENGINEERING WORK AND COMMISSIONING OF NEW INSTRUMENTATION, INCLUDING LINC-NIRVANA AND SOUL. THE WEATHER WAS SLIGHTLY WORSE THAN AVERAGE IN 2019, WITH 42% OF THE SCIENCE TIME LOST TO WEATHER.A TOTAL OF 53 SCIENTIFIC PAPERS BASED ON LBT DATA WERE PUBLISHED IN 2019 IN REFEREED JOURNALS, USING OBSERVATIONS TAKEN BETWEEN 2012 FOR THE OLDEST DATA SET AND 2019 FOR THE MOST RECENT.THREE WORLDWIDE PRESS RELEASES ISSUED BY THE OBSERVATORY IN 2019, TWO CAME FROM LBTB AND ENJOYED A WORLD-WIDE COVERAGE: "MAPPING STARS WITH PEPSI AND "CHEMICAL ELEMENT POTASSIUM DETECTED IN AN EXOPLANET ATMOSPHERE" USING THE PEPSI INSTRUMENT, AND "THREE BLACK HOLES ON COLLISION COURSE", USING BOTH PAIRS OF MODS AND LUCI INSTRUMENTS.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Adriano Fontana | CHAIRMAN & PRESIDENT | 2 | $20,000 |
| Elizabeth Green | SECRETARY | 2 | $0 |
| Mathias Voss | TREASURER | 2 | $0 |
| Chris Kochanek | VICE CHAIRMAN | 2 | $0 |
| Fillippo Zerbi | MEMBER REPRESENTATIVE | 2 | $0 |
| Hans-Walter Rix | MEMBER REPRESENTATIVE | 2 | $0 |
| Christopher Hadad | MEMBER REPRESENTATIVE | 2 | $0 |
| Buell Jannuzi | DIRECTOR & MEMBER REPRESENTATIVE | 2 | $0 |
| Dennis Zaritsky | DIRECTOR | 2 | $0 |
| Mark Whittle | DIRECTOR | 2 | $0 |
| Matthias Steinmetz | DIRECTOR | 2 | $0 |
| Roberto Ragazzoni | DIRECTOR | 2 | $0 |
| Andreas Quirrenbach | DIRECTOR | 2 | $0 |
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