New Robotic Telescope

The New Robotic Telescope (NRT, aka the Liverpool Telescope 2, LT2) is a 4-meter robotic Ritchey-Chrétien reflector telescope under construction at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM), in development by Liverpool John Moores University, of Liverpool, England. As of 2026, first light is expected in late 2029. It is a replacement or upgrade for the 2-meter Liverpool Telescope (LT) in current operation at the observatory. Presumably, like the LT, it will allow somewhat open access to requests for observation, automatically choosing among proposals nightly and performing the observations automatically, and during such observations, it will 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:

• NR-SPRAT - IFU Spectrograph, R=600.
• NR-imager - with ugriz photometric system filter set.
• NR-MOPTOP - polarimeter (instrument moved from LT).
• NR-RAPTOR - transient near-infrared SED characterization (instrument moved from LT).
• NR-GLIC - ugriz filter set.
• NR-SWIFT - Red Sensitive IFU spectrosgraph, R~2000.
• NR-SoXS - R~4000 longslit echelle spectrograph.
• NR-GLIP - polarimeter, UGRIZ filter set.

Note that the abbreviation NRT is also used for the Nançay Radio Telescope.