The world largest fully robotic astronomical telescope, was put into operation recently at the Yunnan Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences. As a fully robotic telescope with remote control mode, the facility is designed to work automatically without human operators in attendance.The $4.5 million telescope, with a diameter of 2.4 meters, a height of 8 meters, a weight of some 40 tons and the power to look back over 5 billion light years, has been designed and manufactured by Telescope Technologies Limited (TTL) in UK.
The telescope will be sited at the Gaomeigu (GMG) Station, 3,240 meters above sea level atop a mountain near the historic city and tourist spot of Lijiang, in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
The new telescope, the largest optical telescope in China, can be used for a wide variety of research programs, including searching for planets, studying cataclysmic variable stars and supernovae, determining the size and age of the universe by monitoring supernovae light curves, and investigating the structure of accretion disks around stars using the principles of astrophysical tomography.
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