LT down for three weeks' maintenance

The LT is now offline and being prepared for the scheduled visit from Telescope Technologies Limited (TTL) who built the telescope as its first-off-the-production-line prototype. During the visit the following tasks will be performed:

• re-aluminising the primary mirror
• installing enhanced encoders on the secondary mirror focussing mechanism
• installing additional actuators on the primary mirror
• testing the cassegrain axis rotator assembly
• installing the cryotiger pipes into the cassegrain cable wrap
• fitting the autoguider

This work is expected to take approximately three weeks; we expect to be observing again by the second week of October.