The Liverpool Telescope is a 2.0 metre unmanned fully robotic telescope
at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos on the Canary island of La Palma. It is owned and operated by Liverpool John Moores University, with financial support from STFC.
OPTICON-supported Observing time in 2010B
1700 GMT 27 January 2010
A major change in the application procedure for OPTICON support has been announced, amounting to the
creation of a new common OPTICON TAC, to be accessed via a new web-based proposal tool. The main
news article contains the official notice with full details.
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Liverpool Telescope Operational Funding
1415 GMT 16 December 2009
STFC today announced a managed withdrawal of their contribution towards the operational funding of the Liverpool Telescope. The timing of the withdrawal is still to be negotiated between Liverpool JMU and STFC. This withdrawal, while deeply regrettable, does not mean the facility will close, although access to the facility by UK astronomers in the longer term will obviously be reduced as new partners and operating models are introduced. Allocations already made for Semester 10A will be unaffected. We thank all of our users for their support to date, and look forward to continuing to work with many of them in new and existing collaborations.
Iain Steele, Telescope Director
LT Detects 10% Optical Polarisation in Gamma-Ray Burst
1800 GMT 09 December 2009
A team of astronomers from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have used the RINGO instrument on the Liverpool Telescope (LT) to measure the polarisation of light from a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) and show that strong magnetic fields are responsible for beaming the light towards Earth.
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