Asia’s largest 4-metre International Liquid Mirror Telescope (LMT)

Why in news? Asia’s largest 4-metre liquid mirror telescope inaugurated in Uttarakhand.

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The telescope is located at an altitude of 2,450 metre on the Devasthal Observatory campus of Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (AREES), in Nainital district.

Liquid Mirror Telescope (LMT)

LMTs are stationary telescopes that image a strip of sky.
It can capture all possible celestial objects from stars, galaxies, supernovae explosions, and asteroids to space debris.
ILMT employs a 4-metre-diameter rotating mirror made up of a thin layer of liquid mercury to collect and focus light.
However, other liquids like low-melting alloys of gallium, are also used.
The telescope is designed to survey the strip of the skypassing overhead each night.
The data collected will be analyzed using AI/Machine learning to discover and discern variable and transient stellar sources.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/asias-largest-4-metre-liquid-mirror-telescope-inaugurated-in-uttarakhand/articleshow/98886117.cms

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