Large Zenith Telescope

Large Zenith Telescope

The Large Zenith Telescope (LZT) is a 6.0 m diameter liquid mirror telescope located in the University of British Columbia's Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, about 70km east of Vancouver. It is one of the largest optical telescopes in the world, but still quite inexpensive.

While a zenith telescope has the obvious disadvantage of not being able to look anywhere but a small spot straight up, its simplified setup permits the use of a mirror consisting of a smoothly spinning pan filled with liquid mercury. Such a mirror can be made much larger than a conventional mirror, greatly increasing light collecting ability. The LZT is used for "transit imaging", meaning that earth's rotation moves stars along the sensor, and the latent image in the sensor is moved electronically in step with this movement and read out at the trailing edge.

The Observatory's telescope uses a simple design, which can be seen [http://www.astro.ubc.ca/LMT/lzt/index.html#design here] .

See also

* List of largest optical reflecting telescopes

References

* [http://www.astro.ubc.ca/LMT/ LMT web site at UBC]

External links

* [http://www.astro.ubc.ca/lmt/lzt/ Large Zenith Telescope homepage]


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