Liverpool Telescope

The Liverpool Telescope (LT) is a 2-meter robotic Ritchey-Chrétien reflector telescope located at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM), owned and operated by the Liverpool John Moores University, of Liverpool, England. The telescope has somewhat open access to requests for observation, automatically choosing among proposals nightly and performing the observations automatically. During such observations, it also responds to real-time alerts of some types of transients, interrupting the night's observation to attempt to catch an optical counterpart or the beginning of a light curve. Instruments:

• IO:O - optical wide field camera.
• RISE - fast-readout wide field camera.
• SPRAT - spectrograph for rapid acquisition of transients.
• FRODOSpec - fiber-fed robotic dual-beam optical spectrograph.
• MOPTOP - multicolor optimized optical polarimeter.
• LIRIC - "Liverpool Infra-Red Imaging Camera".

Co-mounted in the enclosure is SkyCam, an all-sky camera with a 180° field of view. Previously listed instruments:

• IO:I - near-infrared camera.

The New Robotic Telescope (NRT, aka the Liverpool Telescope 2, LT2) is an analogous 4-meter telescope in development at the same observatory, with first light planned for late 2029.