Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Apr 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007pasp..119..444h&link_type=abstract
The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 119, Issue 854, pp. 444-455.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Telescopes
Scientific paper
The Large Zenith Telescope is a 6 m optical telescope employing a rotating primary mirror coated with a film of liquid mercury. Located at an altitude of 400 m in the Coast Mountains of southwestern British Columbia, this telescope began regular operation in 2005 October. Equipped with a four-element Richardson prime-focus corrector and thinned 2048×2048 pixel drift-scanning CCD imaging camera, it is used for astronomical survey observations and also serves as an engineering test facility for further development of liquid-mirror technology. Built at a cost of less than $1 million dollars, it achieves an image quality and sensitivity comparable to that of a conventional telescope of equal aperture and is limited primarily by the astronomical quality of the site.
Cabanac Remi
Crotts Arlin
de Lapparent Valerie
Gromoll Stefan
Hickson Paul
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