Large Zenith Telescope project: a 6-m mercury-mirror telescope
Abstract
The Large Zenith Telescope is a zenith-pointing telescope with a 6-meter diameter rotating mercury mirror. Located in mountains near Vancouver, Canada, it is expected to see first light in 1998. Equipped with a low-noise drift- scanning CCD camera, the telescope will survey a 17-arcmin- wide strip of sky using a set of medium-band filters. The data are expected to provide spectral energy distributions and photometric redshifts for over a million galaxies which will form a base for studies of galaxy evolution and large- scale structure.
- Publication:
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Advanced Technology Optical/IR Telescopes VI
- Pub Date:
- August 1998
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.319286
- Bibcode:
- 1998SPIE.3352..226H