Liverpool Telescope
(LT)
(2-meter robotic telescope in Spain)
The Liverpool Telescope (LT) is a 2-meter robotic
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:
The New Robotic Telescope (NRT,
aka the Liverpool Telescope 2, LT2)
is an analogous 4-meter telescope in development at the same
observatory, planned for the 2020s.
(telescope,reflector,visible light,Canary Islands)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Telescope
https://telescope.livjm.ac.uk/
https://www.iac.es/en/observatorios-de-canarias/telescopes-and-experiments/liverpool-telescope
https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2017/7/25/tales-from-the-liverpool-telescope
https://www.growth.caltech.edu/conferences/presentations2016/DanPerley.pdf
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004NuPhS.132..312G/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011tfa..confE..17S/abstract
http://www.robotictelescope.org/
https://www.iac.es/en/observatorios-de-canarias/telescopes-and-experiments/new-robotic-telescope
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ExA....39..119C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016RMxAC..48...48C/abstract
Referenced by pages:
Nançay Radio Telescope (NRT)
Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM)
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