The Large Zenith Telescope (LZT) was a 6.0-meter diameter liquid-mirror telescope located in the University of British Columbia's Malcolm Knapp Research...

A zenith telescope is a type of telescope that is designed to point straight up at or near the zenith. They are used for precision measurement of star...

to simplify telescope construction, or both. The NASA Orbital Debris Observatory and the Large Zenith Telescope are both zenith telescopes, since the use...

as it is located in the Arctic Ocean. The mercury mirror of the Large Zenith Telescope in Canada was the largest liquid-metal mirror ever built. It had...

telescope. The mirrors themselves can be larger than the aperture, and some telescopes may use aperture synthesis through interferometry. Telescopes designed...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is an astronomical observatory under construction. When completed, it will be the world's largest optical and near-infrared...

incoming light. Large Zenith Telescope NASA Orbital Debris Observatory Singh, Surendra (2023-03-22). "Asia's largest 4-metre liquid mirror telescope inaugurated...

radio telescopes require very large antennas to collect enough radio energy to study them, and extremely sensitive receiving equipment. Radio telescopes are...

Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST; Chinese: 五百米口径球面射电望远镜), nicknamed Tianyan (天眼, lit. "Sky's/Heaven's Eye"), is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang...

NASA-LMT was configured as a zenith telescope. Using 20 narrowband filters, it cataloged space debris in Earth's orbit. The telescope was initially completed...

was on 2 August 1957; the telescope did a drift scan across the Milky Way at 160 MHz, with the bowl at the zenith. The telescope was first controlled from...

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is a 9.2-metre optical telescope designed mainly for spectroscopy. It consists of 91 hexagonal mirror segments...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), is an astronomical observatory under construction in Chile...

the telescope at the coordinates of known objects. They are known for being difficult to point at objects near the zenith, mainly because a large movement...

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is a planned extremely large telescope (ELT) proposed to be built on Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawai'i. The TMT would...

fixed stars as the Earth rotates. Fixed telescope mounts are entirely fixed in one position, such as Zenith telescopes that point only straight up and the...

A reflecting telescope (also called a reflector) is a telescope that uses a single or a combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image...

The history of the telescope can be traced to before the invention of the earliest known telescope, which appeared in 1608 in the Netherlands, when a...

north celestial pole, the zenith, the south point of the horizon, the south celestial pole, and the nadir. Meridian telescopes rely on the rotation of the...

218 ft (66 m) parabolic reflector zenith telescope built in 1947. At the time, it was the world's largest radio telescope. It consisted of a wire mesh suspended...

MacMillan Southam Observatory, H.R. Macmillan Space Centre, Vancouver Large Zenith Telescope, University of British Columbia (at Malcolm Knapp Research Forest)...

telescopes one yard to less than 2 metres in aperture. Lists of telescopes "Large Zenith Telescope". Atlas Obscura. "Crimean Astrophysical Observatory". Crao...

is infinite. Thus, altazimuth telescopes, although they can point in any direction, cannot track smoothly within a "zenith blind spot", commonly 0.5 or...

reflectors. This allowed the telescope to observe any region of the sky in a forty-degree cone of visibility about the local zenith (between −1 and 38 degrees...

black hole's event horizon. Data are transported on large hard drives from the observing telescopes to Haystack, where a cluster of about 800 CPUs run...

the measurement of the many base lines of these surveys and also the zenith telescope used in latitude determinations. A total of eight such instruments...

and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Large Zenith Telescope Liquid-mirror telescope Wing, Robin; Martic, Milena; Hauchecorne, Alain; Porteneuve...

accurate pointing of the telescope. Since the telescope is on an equatorial mount, the telescope can observe targets through the zenith without concern for...

The William Herschel Telescope (WHT) is a 4.20-metre (165 in) optical/near-infrared reflecting telescope located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory...

around zenith for which the telescope cannot continuously track all movements of a target. Note that even if the helicopter does not pass through zenith, but...