LAMOST

The Large Sky Area Multi -Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope ( LAMOST ) (translated as wide-angle multi- object optical waveguide spectroscopy telescope ) of the Observatory Xinglong Station is the largest Chinese optical telescope. Its cost amounted to 30 million U.S. dollars. It was taken in June 2007.

This novel, optimized for spectroscopy telescope has an effective primary mirror diameter of about 4 m. It has the possibility of up to 4,000 objects simultaneously measured spectroscopically in its field of view of 5 ° by the light via optical fibers is performed by the image plane of a spectrometer.

His appearance is similar to that of a Schmidt telescope, the corrector is designed as an inclined mirror. This is pivotable and can be aligned with the desired region of the sky. The corrector consists of 24 hexagonal mirror segments with a diameter of 110 cm and is equipped with an active optics. The spherical primary mirror is also constructed from 46 segments.