International Liquid Mirror Telescope

  • Recently, Asia’s largest 4-metre International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) was inaugurated at Devasthal in Uttarakhand.
  • The telescope is located at an altitude of 2450 metre at the Devasthal Observatory campus of ARIES, an autonomous institute under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India in Nainital district, Uttarakhand.
  • It is the first liquid mirror telescope designed exclusively for astronomical observations.
  • ILMT employs a 4-metre-diameter rotating mirror made up of a thin layer of liquid mercury to collect and focus light.
  • It is designed to survey the strip of the sky passing overhead each night, allowing it to detect ....
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