World's largest telescope ready for action

[mad1]

Liverpool Telescpoe

"The Liverpool Telescope, the world's largest fully robotic telescope, has snapped its first images of the heavens this week. This 2 meter optical telescope is owned by the Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI) of Liverpool John Moores University (JMU), but observes autonomously from its site on La Palma in the Canary Islands. The telescope was designed, constructed and commissioned by Telescope Technologies Ltd., a subsidiary company of JMU."

[Tarp2]

I like the clam-shell cover.

What can this see beyond the Hubbard scope? It has to go thru the atmosphere, no?

[CraigK]

bah. just another toy you have to have a Ph.D. to play with!!

Cool. I don't remember hearing about this previously.

[Urban_Squrill]

That is huge!