Asia’s largest 4-metre International Liquid Mirror Telescope (LMT)
Fri, 24 Mar 2023

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

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

About:

  • 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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