Liquid-Mirror Telescope (LMT)

A unique International Liquid-Mirror Telescope (ILMT) has recently been installed at the Devasthal Observatory campus of the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), an autonomous institute of Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, in Nainital, Uttarakhand.

  • The telescope uses a 4-meter-wide rotating mirror made of a thin film of liquid mercury to gather and focus light.
  • It has been intended to monitor the strip of the overhead sky to identify transient or variable objects such as supernovae, gravitational lenses, space debris, asteroids, etc.
  • The principle behind liquid-mirror (LM) telescopes is that the surface of ....
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