Lowell Discovery Telescope

The Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT, formerly the Discovery Channel Telescope, DCT) is a 4.3-meter optical/near-infrared telescope at Happy Jack, Arizona, operated by Lowell Observatory. It was partially funded by the Discovery Channel, thus the name. The telescope site is 40 miles from Flagstaff, at a dark-sky site in Coconino National Forest, and is at an elevation of 2360 meters. Its first light was in 2012. Instruments:

• LMI - Large Monolithic Imager.
• NIHTS - Near Infrared High Throughput spectrograph.
• DeVeny Spectrograph.
• EXPRES - Extreme Precision Spectrometer.
• QWSSI - Quad-camera, Wave-front-sensing, Six-wavelength-channel Speckle Interferometer.
• POETS - Portable Occultation, Eclipse, and Transit system, a frame transfer CCD camera.

Planned:

• RIMAS - Rapid Infrared Imager-spectrograph.

It was earlier announced that NEWS (Near-infrared Echelle for Wide-band spectroscopy.) would be on the LDT but I have seen no recent references.