Editing Liverpool Telescope (section)

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The '''Liverpool Telescope''' ('''LT''') is a two-metre-aperture{{efn|6.6-foot in imperial terms}} [[robotic telescope|robotic]] [[Ritchey–Chrétien telescope]] that observes autonomously (without human intervention). However professional astronomers, school groups and other credible registered users submit specifications to be considered by its robotic control system (RCS) at any time using an online [[graphical user interface]]. Each night the RCS decides among these choices, and among any notified or glimpsed transient events, what to observe, based on target visibility and weather conditions.<ref>{{cite web | title = Liverpool Telescope – Robotic Systems | url = http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk/Info/TelInst/Robotic/ | access-date = 2013-03-06 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140720004138/http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk/Info/TelInst/Robotic/ | archive-date = 2014-07-20 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

The telescope had first light in 2003,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o0xsDQAAQBAJ&q=Liverpool+Telescope+first+light&pg=PA125|title=Observatories and Telescopes of Modern Times|last=Leverington|first=David|date=2017|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521899932|language=en}}</ref> and is the brainchild and property of [[Liverpool John Moores University]].