Large Zenith Telescope
(LZT)
(6 meter liquid mirror telescope in British Columbia)
The Large Zenith Telescope (LZT) was a 6 meter
liquid-mirror reflector telescope in British Columbia, Canada,
completed in 2003 and decommissioned around 2016.
The LZT took advantage of the lesser expense
of a liquid mirror, forgoing the exacting
work and expense required constructing other types of mirrors,
trading that off for the limitation of viewing
only very close to vertically.
Parts of it were recycled from the earlier
liquid mirror telescope at the
NASA Orbital Debris Observatory.
(telescope,reflector,liquid mirror,visible light,ground,Canada,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Zenith_Telescope
https://www.astro.ubc.ca/lmt/lzt/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998SPIE.3352..226H/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002ASPC..283..129C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007PASP..119..444H/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007PASP..119..456H/abstract
Referenced by pages:
liquid mirror telescope
segmented mirror
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