The Liverpool 2m Robotic Telescope

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May 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000aas...196.1904b&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 196th AAS Meeting, #19.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.697

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The Liverpool Telescope (LT) is undergoing the final stages of assembly and test before becoming operational on La Palma (Canaries) at the end of this year. A state-of-the-art 2m telescope, it is one of 3 currently being built at JMU, incorporating design features from 4 and 8m-class telescopes, but designed from the outset to operate very reliably and fully automatically. Its optical quality takes full advantage of the excellent seeing on the site. The LT has a fully opening enclosure, which minimises local thermal effects and the time taken to slew to new targets. Instruments include a CCD camera and spectrograph. The LT's primary science drivers involve rapid reaction to targets of opportunity (e.g. novae, supernovae, GRB's, long-period comets); systematic monitoring of variable sources (including the above, plus LPV's, AGN, gravitational lenses etc.); simultaneous observations with other facilities (both on the ground and in space), and time-critical observations (e.g. of particular binary phases). Although most of the LT's time is set aside for research as a UK national facility, time is also available for schools and planetaria, through the UK National Schools Observatory programme. The Liverpool Telescope is funded via EU, PPARC and JMU grants.

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