Liverpool Telescope
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The Liverpool Telescope is a 2m fully robotic telescope, meaning that it can be remotely operated and also run without human intervention once given a list of observations to make.
It has been built by Telescope Technologies Ltd. and owned by Liverpool John Moores University with funding from PPARC. It is sited at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos on La Palma.
Along with the Faulkes Telescope North and the Faulkes Telescope South, the Liverpool Telescope is also available for use by school children around the world over the internet.
External link
- Liverpool Telescope homepage (http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk/)
- The RoboNet (http://www.astro.livjm.ac.uk/RoboNet/) global network which controls the Liverpool Telescope over the internet