LAMOST in Trial Operation

    Su Dingqiang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a professor of the Astronomy Department at Nanjing University, says that the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) is now undergoing precise adjustment and trial operation. LAMOST is the world's biggest fixed spectrometer telescope, promising a very high spectrum acquiring rate of tens of thousands of spectra per night. LAMOST has 4,000 fibers at a shot (there are normally 660 fibers in other countries) that can acquire spectra of at least 3,000 celestial bodies simultaneously.