Liquid-mirror Telescopes: Cheaper Option To Glass-mirror Finally Released - Gizmo Watch: "As the scientist community wishes to explore the farthest away spatial bodies, their urge for erecting bigger and better telescopes gets growing! But erection of mighty, scientific and automated telescopes is no easy task - they require funds to be poured in like water, along with human efforts. Owing to this reason, world’s first 4 meter wide liquid-mirror telescope based observatory is going to be erected in India by 2009. The International Liquid Mirror Telescope is going to be funded by Belgium and Canada and would be located on a mountaintop. Conceptually, liquid-mirror are based on simple property of fluid dynamics - spin a pool of fluid till it coincidentally rearranges itself to an exact parabolic shape, same as the glass mirror used for observation. These telescopes cost one-tenth of their glass-mirror counterparts of the same size and time required to erect them is also significantly low."
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