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03/06/22 20:37 PM IST

A Unique Liquid-Mirror Telescope

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  • A new telescope facility atop a mountain in the Himalayan range will now keep a watch on the overhead sky to identify transient or variable objects such as supernovae, gravitational lenses, space debris, and asteroids.
Liquid Mirror Telescope 
  • The telescope, commissioned at Devasthal, a hill in Uttarakhand, will help in surveying the sky making it possible to  observe several galaxies and other astronomical sources just by staring at the strip of sky that passes overhead.
  • It is the first liquid mirror telescope in the country and the largest in Asia.
  • Built by astronomers from India, Belgium and Canada, the novel instrument employs a 4-meter-diameter rotating mirror made up of a thin film of liquid mercury to collect and focus light.
  • It is located at an altitude of 2450 metres at the Devasthal Observatory campus of Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), an autonomous institute under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India in Nainital district, Uttarakhand.
  • “ILMT is the first liquid-mirror telescope designed exclusively for astronomical observations installed at the Devasthal Observatory of ARIES.
Source- PIB 

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