The Mozi Survey Telescope has entered the trial observation stage and will be officially put into observation in the middle of this month.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen grass Luo Yuzi for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, September 4, according to CCTV News today, the Mozi Survey Telescope has entered the stage of engineering commissioning and observation and will be officially put into observation in mid-September.

The telescope is the largest and most capable telescope in time domain survey in the northern hemisphere. it has a field of view of 2.5 meters and is located in the Leng Lake Astronomical observation Base in Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province. The main mirror has an aperture of 2.5 meters and is equipped with a 765 megapixel main focus camera with a large target surface. the core scientific goal is to search and monitor astronomical dynamic events and to carry out time-domain astronomical observation and research.

Lou Zheng, chief engineer of the Qinghai Observatory of the Zijinshan Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said in an interview that the current work is to optimize the imaging quality of the telescope, and its pointing and tracking performance still needs to be further optimized. When Mozi is officially put into observation, it can detect some very weak and distant celestial signals, including extragalactic galaxies, galaxy clusters and other celestial signals.

CTOnews.com Note: Qinghai Lenghu Astronomical observation Base is located in Saishten Mountain, Lenghu Town, Mangya City, Haixi Mongolian Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, with an average elevation of about 4000 meters. It is also the only world-class observatory in the Eastern Hemisphere. It was published in the top academic journal Nature in 2021-the Chinese research team published a study entitled "Cold Lake Astronomical Observatory site on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau" (Lenghu on the Tibetan Plateau as an astronomical observing site).

The base has the conditions of scarce vegetation, thin air and less artificial light pollution, and it is also one of the best observatory sites in Eurasia.