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	Encyclopedia: Telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Telescopes used for non-astronomical purposes are often referred to as theodolites, transits, spotting scopes, monoculars, binoculars, camera lenses, microscopes or spyglasses.
		Radio telescopes are often operated in pairs, or larger groups to synthesize large "virtual" apertures that are similar in size to the separation between the telescopes: see aperture synthesis.
		The telescope was aimed by the aid of a Foucault sidÃ©rostat, which is a movable plane mirror with a 2 m diameter, mounted in a large cast-iron frame.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Telescope (4904 words)

	Liverpool Telescope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The telescope was built by Telescope Technologies Ltd., and is owned by Liverpool John Moores University with operational funding from PPARC.
		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.
		The Liverpool Telescope is one of the primary players in the Heterogeneous Telescope Networks Consortium, a global collaboration between major research groups in the field of robotic telescopes which seeks a standard for communication between remote telescopes, telescope users, and other scientific resources.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liverpool_Telescope (189 words)

	Telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Telescopes increase the apparent angular size of objects, as well as their apparent brightness.
		Galileo Galilei is credited with being the first to use a telescope for astronomical purposes in 1609, calling it at first a perspicillum, and then using the terms telescopium in Latin and telescopio in Italian (from which the English word derives).
		The four telescopes, belonging to ESO and located in the Atacama desert in Chile, are usually operated independently for faint astronomical observations, but can be operated together for aperture synthesis observations of bright objects.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Telescope.htm (1561 words)

	'I, RoboNet' - intelligent telescopes survey the violent skies
		The Liverpool Telescope with its distinctive clamshell dome.
		It was this that led astronomers at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) to pioneer the development of a new generation of fully robotic telescopes, designed and built in the UK by Telescope Technologies Ltd..
		Professor Michael Bode of Liverpool John Moores University adds "We have led the world in the design and build of the most advanced robotic telescopes and now with RoboNet-1.0 we are set to lead the way in some of the most challenging and exciting areas of modern astrophysics".
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-09/ppa-r-091404.php (880 words)

	RedOrbit NEWS \| World's Largest Robotic Telescope Ready for Action!
		The Liverpool Telescope's unique capabilities of flexible scheduling and rapid response will put the UK at the forefront of exciting new fields of research in time domain astrophysics.
		Provided are pictures of the telescope itself and a selection of images taken by the LT with its optical camera during its very first night of operation.
		Telescope Technologies Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liverpool John Moores University focussed on the design and production of high specification equipment including large astronomical telescopes and instrumentation.
	www.redorbit.com /modules/news/tools.php?tool=print&id=18072 (656 words)

	Faulkes Telescope Spectrographs
		The Faulkes Telescope project is installing two 2 metre telescopes exclusively for use in education, in Hawaii and Australia.
		The spectrographs to be installed on the Faulkes telescopes are being built at the University of Leicester in a collaboration with the University of Manchester and Liverpool John Moores University.
		In comparison to the Swift UV-Optical Telescope grism, which covers the range 3000-6000 Å at 20 Å resolution, the FT spectrographs will achieve five times the spectral resolution and between ten and twenty times the throughput in the overlapping wavelength range.
	www.src.le.ac.uk /projects/faulkes (607 words)

	World’s largest robotic telescope ready for action!
		The Liverpool Telescope, the world's largest fully robotic telescope, has snapped its first images of the heavens this week.
		It operates the Liverpool Telescope on behalf of the university and the research community.
		The telescope is sited at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos which is operated on the island of La Palma by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-08/ppa-wlr080403.php (851 words)

	ENO - Nocturnal Telescopes
		The William Herschel Telescope is the largest of the telescopes at the Canarian Observatories, indeed it is the largest in Western Europe.
		The role of the telescope is as a facility for CCD imaging of bright objects.
		The Liverpool Telescope is a 2 m diameter robotic telescope with a CCD imaging camera (pixel scale 0.15 arcsec/pixel).
	www.otri.iac.es /eno/nt.htm (1699 words)

	World's Largest Robotic Telescope Ready for Action!
		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 is supported by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), making 40 percent of the observing time available to astronomers throughout the UK.
		The telescope is sited at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos which is operated on the island of La Palma by the Instituto de Astrof EDsi ca de Canarias.
	universe.nasa.gov /press/2003/030804a.html (900 words)

	Telescopes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the U.S. follow-on to the Einstein Observatory.
		The original low frequency telescope was superseded in 1976 by a 14-m diameter radome-enclosed antenna for use at high radio frequencies (mm wavelengths), built primarily to study the physics and chemistry of interstellar clouds, circumstellar envelopes, planetary atmospheres, and comets.
		Michelle: A mid-infrared spectrometer and imager for the UKIRT and Gemini telescopes
	www.cv.nrao.edu /fits/www/yp_telescope.html (12410 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Stargazers watch via the web
		Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Exeter are collaborating on the eStar project, which already has three telescopes operating.
		A network of telescopes was useful, he said, because it would allow astronomers to permanently track objects rather than lose sight of them as they did when using a single observatory.
		Having access to a collection of telescopes also means that the instrument in the best position to watch an object can always be trained on it.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1961000/1961765.stm (505 words)

	Astrophysics Research Institute - Liverpool John Moores University
		A major initiative that the Institute is involved in is the Liverpool Telescope project funded in part by an EU grant.
		The prototype instrument, the 2m Liverpool Telescope, will be the World's largest robotic telescope, and will be in full scientific operation on La Palma in the Canaries in 2003.
		In the recent QAA teaching quality assessment exercise conducted together with the Physics Department of the University of Liverpool we were awarded a maximum TQA score of 24 out of 24.
	www.astro.livjm.ac.uk /about/history.shtml (426 words)

	Project Objectives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Liverpool John Moores University are already developing basic software for schools in the Merseyside area as part of the Liverpool Telescope Project, funded by PPARC and the EU.
		The Liverpool Telescope Schools’ Programme has been running for more than four years and in that time has established that schools and colleges are excited with the prospect of using a professional astronomical telescope in the classroom.
		These projects are common throughout the country and robotic telescopes offer an excellent platform on which to base such projects helping to maintain the momentum of pupils’ science education into the all-important period of adolescence.
	faulkes1.astro.cf.ac.uk /ft_history/outline.htm (1033 words)

	Greenwich Observatory Limited - Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Telescope Technologies Limited (TTL) was established by the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Liverpool John Moores University (JMU) to build advanced optical telescopes for the world market.
		The telescopes were designed specifically for remote, robotic operation which requires high levels of reliability and careful attention to detail.
		As the former Technical Director of the RGO, Neil was one of the principals involved in establishing the NGAT programme and TTL.
	www.greenwich-observatory.co.uk /ngat.html (254 words)

	Project Description
		Its "twin," the Liverpool Telescope, will become installed at one of Europe's premier observatories in the Canary Islands in the fall of 2001.
		The telescope's control system will determine if the weather is good enough to observe, point the telescope, take the images requested, and then move to the next observation.
		By directing the telescope's operations remotely over the Internet, students from the UK and Hawaii will be able to access observing data in "real time" from their classrooms or request observations in "robotic mode," much as professional astronomers do in working with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
	www.ifa.hawaii.edu /~heasley/faulkes/web/project.html (794 words)

	North West Universities Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In August 1997 Astrophysics became part of the new School of Engineering at Liverpool JMU and in September 1997 the Astrophysics Research Institute was formally established.
		The Institute is responsible for the running of the telescope and will have a significant amount of guaranteed time in which to conduct observing programmes.
		The telescope and its successors will be built on Merseyside by a subsidiary company of JMU Telescope Technologies Limited based at the new JMU technology campus at Twelve Quay.
	www.nwua.ac.uk /casestudy/cs_astrophysics.html (208 words)

	University of Liverpool Department of Physics - F3F5 : Physics with Astronomy BSc (Hons) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The programme is a collaboration between the University of Liverpool (UL) and Liverpool John Moores University (JMU).
		Students will be registered at the University of Liverpool and most of the programme modules will be delivered there, but they will have full status at JMU for access to relevant facilities.
		The new 2-metre Liverpool telescope will be sited in the Canary Islands and operated remotely from the JMU Astrophysics Research Institute.
	www.ph.liv.ac.uk /admissions/undergraduate/pr_u_f3f5.html (292 words)

	The Liverpool Telescope Project by Professor Mike Bode
		In 1881 the Liverpool Astronomical Society became the forerunner of provincial astronomical groups and spawned the British Astronomical Association in 1891.
		The prototype Liverpool Telescope is a 2m -Class, Richey-Chretien Cassegrain reflector mounted alt-azimuthly.
		The latter is one of two telescopes being privately financed for the sole use of UK schools.
	www.mikeoates.org /mas/history/lectures/20010315.htm (620 words)

	Robotic Telescope, and other Robotic Telescope information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hertfordshire used the world's largest robotic optical telescope, the Liverpool Telescope, to detect the optical light...
		BART is a small aperture telescope designed for quick GRB follow-ups with response time to a GCN notice as short as possible.
		The cutting-edge telescope, located at the Teide Observatory in the Canary Islands, is a project...
	www.maxiscopes.co.uk /directory/robotic-telescope.html (425 words)

	News Update
		Liverpool John Moores University has been awarded one of the UK's most prestigious educational awards for its astronomical excellence and public engagement in science.
		The development of the Liverpool Telescope - and four other subsequent robotic telescopes - has enabled the ARI to play an instrumental role in realising the scientific vision of a network of research class telescopes, on world-class sites around the globe.
		Unlike other ground-based telescopes, it is flexible enough to respond to objects that appear suddenly in the sky - such as supernovae, gamma ray bursts and comets - while also contributing, for example, to the study of planets outside our solar system.
	www.ljmu.ac.uk /NewsUpdate/index_72358.htm (1029 words)

	High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network
		SDSU is currently raising funds to construct a new generation 100-inch class robotic telescope based on the 80-inch Liverpool John Moores University (UK) Telescope soon to go into operation on La Palma in the Canary Islands.
		This telescope design allows for up to seven different instruments to be mounted simultaneously, which can be selected by computer by simply rotating a flat mirror to direct the focused light of the telescope to the desired instrument station.
		Placing such a robotic telescope with automated auxiliary instruments at MLO will allow for real-time "remote" observing that would be a vast improvement in efficiency over "service" observing, which requires technical staff at the observatory to carry out observations for an astronomer at a remote location.
	hpwren.ucsd.edu /news/010502.html (958 words)

	Telescope Technologies Ltd - First Light for Liverpool Telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On the right, you can see the star after the telescope was focused.
		In spite of the poor conditions over the factory, with thick cirrus, a series of stars were successfully aquired, tracked and imaged.
		This was the first time that the CCD camera had been attached to the telescope, testing a number of important systems.
	www.ngat.com /news/ltfl0501.htm (181 words)

	NSO: News: Liverpool Telescope
		- The Liverpool Telescope is now fitted with covers to protect the primary mirror while the telescope is not being used.
		- An important part of the telescope is the base box which forms a platform on which the main structure of the telescope is attached.
		- The first stage in the assembly of the Liverpool Telescope is the positioning of twelve fixators which firmly hold the telescope in position on the specially laid concrete base.
	www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk /news/arch/teleindx.htm (590 words)

	News from the Roque (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The MAGIC Cherenkov telescope, officially inaugurated together with the Mercator telescope, on 10 October, has dramatically changed the skyline of the observatory.
		This 17-m telescope, out in the open, is now being fitted out with its segmented mirrors that later this year will catch the photons of Cherenkov light from high energy air showers.
		The Liverpool telescope was the centre of attention in May, as it was inaugurated by dignitaries from the UK and Spain.
	www.ing.iac.es /PR/newsletter/news7/other5.html (544 words)

	Telescope Technologies Limited - Liverpool Telescope Science Operations Begin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On 20 January 2004 the Liverpool Telescope began science operations.
		Data for peer-reviewed science programmes is now being collected routinely by the Liverpool Telescope.
		Here are some recent images of solar system objects taken by the Liverpool Telescope.
	www.ngat.com /news/lt0104.htm (78 words)

	The Liverpool Telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Liverpool Telescope will be the world's largest robotic telescope and will be controlled from Merseyside, but will be sited on La Palma - one of the Canary Islands off the West coast of Africa.
		TTL will make robotic telescopes for astronomers all over the world, and the Liverpool Telescope will be the first.
		Pupils at Liverpool College have their own radio telescope and are looking forward to using the robotic telescope.
	www.liverpoolcollege.org.uk /Mosaic/the.htm (182 words)

	The Communication of Images from New Generation Astronomical Telescopes
		New Generation Astronomical Telescopes (NGAT), a class of telescopes designed to be operated remotely and robotically, require efficient methods for communicating images over heterogeneous and low-bandwidth data networks such as the Internet.
		The aim is to develop the means, in software, to efficiently communicate, process and display images generated by the telescope for a diverse audience that includes professional astronomers, schools and colleges, and the general public visiting a planetarium.
		The Liverpool Telescope (LT) will be the first NGAT and will be the demonstration unit for the technology being developed.
	adass.org /adass/proceedings/adass99/P1-30 (974 words)

	Telescope Uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The way to compare similar telescope is by aperture; that is, the size of the objective lens or mirror.
		Weight can also be added to the telescope (optical tube) to make it more stable, but the telescope must remain balanced from end to end.
		Unfortunately, the steadiest, sharpest telescopic views are often had under precisely the atmospheric conditions that cause dew to form.
	www.your-telescope.co.uk (1972 words)

	Astrophysics Research Institute - Liverpool John Moores University
		The Liverpool Telescope is associated with a major programme of Public Understanding of Science and Technology.
		Image data from the telescope is used to enrich public talks given at both local and national level, whilst teachers and students throughout the UK are able to benefit from The Liverpool Telescope Schools Programme.
		An educational website has been developed to facilitate communication between the Liverpool Telescope and the schools and colleges requesting observational data.
	www.astro.livjm.ac.uk /about/public.shtml (243 words)

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