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UBC-Laval Telescope (LMT)
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UBC-Laval Telescope	has limitation views a 21' field at local zenith (centered on declination +49° 1)
	has mounting manufacturer Univ. of British Col.
	has longitude 122° 35' W
	has latitude 49° 07' N
	has mirror maker P Hickson
	has mirror type rotating liquid mercury container
	has optical design Paraboloid, field corr.
	has aperture 2.7 m
	has focal ratio f/1.887
	has acronym LMT
	has altitude 50 m
	has owner Univ. of B.C. and Laval Univ.
	has creation date 1992
	has location Vancouver, BC, Canada
	is an instance of Newtonian
	is an instance of optical telescope
	is an instance of fixed vertical mount telescope
fixed vertical mount telescope	has mounting fixed vertical
Newtonian	has secondary mirror shape plane
	has primary mirror shape concave paraboloidal
optical telescope	has reference astroweb
reflector	has mirror diameter equal to aperture (except for Schmidt which has aperture smaller than mirror diameter)
Earth based telescope	has temperature ambient
telescope	has wavelength sensitivity
	has angular resolving power
	has effective diameter
	has operator
	has purpose observe celestial objects
artifact	has creator
physical object	has angular momentum
	has mass
	has velocity
	has momentum
	has volume
	has extent
	has material

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