Liverpool Telescope
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| Liverpool Telescope | |
| Organization | Liverpool John Moores University |
|---|---|
| Location | Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos, La Palma |
| Diameter | 2m |
The Liverpool Telescope is a 2m fully robotic telescope, meaning that it can be remotely operated and also run without human intervention once given a list of observations to make. It is the largest robotic telescope in the world to be used primarily for astronomy.
The telescope was built by Telescope Technologies Ltd., and is owned by Liverpool John Moores University with operational funding from PPARC. It is sited at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos on La Palma. It is a Ritchey-Chrétien telescope.
Along with the Faulkes Telescope North and the Faulkes Telescope South, the Liverpool Telescope is also available for use by school children around the world over the internet.
The Liverpool Telescope is one of the primary players in the Heterogeneous Telescope Networks Consortium, a global collaboration between major research groups in the field of robotic telescopes which seeks a standard for communication between remote telescopes, telescope users, and other scientific resources.
[edit] External links
- The National Schools Observatory who allocate observing time to schools
- Liverpool Telescope homepage
- The RoboNet global network which controls the Liverpool Telescope over the internet
