The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT ) project is a
scientific collaboration between four countries: Belgium,
Canada, India and Poland. It has been set-up at Devasthal observatory
(Nainital, India). Taking the advantage of best seeing conditions
towards the zenith, the ILMT will be able to image a strip of sky in
the g’, r’ and i’ spectral bands using 4k x 4k CCD ( in the time delay
integration mode), having an approximate width of 27’ in declination and length of 24 hours in right ascension.
The ILMT will perform a deep survey of a long and narrow strip of the sky (stars, galaxies, active galactic nuclei,
supernovae, asteroids, space debris, etc.) that is crossing its
field-of-view (FOV). In this talk, the speaker would like to give an update on the
recent progress work achieved at ILMT (including the monitoring of Hg
vapors at Devasthal) and have a general discussion with ARIES scientists
(staff astronomers, post-docs, PhD students and engineers) on the topics
of ILMT data reduction, analysis and archiving.