Beijing: Researchers have developed a robotic 70 cm telescope assembled by China and Thailand together put into process in China’s Yunnan province.
The telescope, installed at an observation station at Yunnan Observatory in Lijiang city, was completed last December, Qian Shengbang, a research fellow with the observatory, as saying.
At low latitudes, Lijiang enjoys high atmospheric transparency. “[This means] the telescope can help us conduct long-term monitoring of the southern sky to see the movements and evolution, and search for special celestial bodies such as black holes or brown dwarfs,” he said.
The telescope has been tested and the data, Qian noted, acquired will be used to inform time-series photometry.
Yunnan Observatory has collaborated with Thailand for more than two decades.
