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A very unique strength of the Devasthal Observatory is its capability ofdetecting optical transients with the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope(ILMT) and to rapidly follow them up using the 1.3-m Devasthal Fast OpticalTelescope (DFOT) and/or the 3.6-m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT), installedright next to it. In this context, we have inspected 20 fields observed during9 consecutive nights in October-November 2022 during the first commissioningphase of the ILMT. Each of these fields has an angular extent of $22^\prime$ indeclination by $9 \times 22^\prime$ in right ascension. Combining both a visualsearch for optical transients and an automatic search for these using an imagesubtraction technique (see the ILMT poster paper by Pranshu et al.), we reporta total of 232 significant transient candidates. After consulting the MinorPlanet Center database of asteroids, we could identify among these 219positions of known asteroids brighter than $V=22$. These correspond to theconfirmed positions of 78 distinct known asteroids. Analysis of the remainingCCD frames covering 19 more fields (out of 20) should lead to an impressivenumber of asteroids observed in only 9 nights. The conclusion is that in orderto detect and characterize new supernovae, micro-lensing events, highlyvariable stars, multiply imaged quasars, etc. among the ILMT opticaltransients, we shall first have to identify all known and new asteroids. Thanksto its large diameter and short focal length (f/D $\sim$ 2.4), the ILMT turnsout to be an excellent asteroid hunter.

Detection and Identification of Asteroids with the 4-m ILMT