The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is a 9.2-metre optical telescope designed mainly for spectroscopy. It consists of 91 hexagonal mirror segments...

world's largest optical and near-infrared extremely large telescope. Part of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) agency, it is located on top of Cerro...

telescope. The mirrors themselves can be larger than the aperture, and some telescopes may use aperture synthesis through interferometry. Telescopes designed...

the South African Astronomical Observatory include the development of a spherical aberration corrector and the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)....

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Segments". Southern African Large Telescope website. SOAA. Retrieved 10 May 2013. Tests begin on Canaries telescope BBC 14 July 2007 Giant telescope begins...

of large optical telescopes List of largest infrared telescopes List of largest optical telescopes historically List of largest optical telescopes in...

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is a ground-based, extremely large telescope currently under construction at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile's Atacama...

recent outburst from the central star. Observations with the Southern African Large Telescope have finally found a white dwarf companion in a 4.04 day orbit...

Sutherland, it is host to the Southern African Large Telescope as well as numerous other South African and international telescopes. Notable astronomers who...

also carry telescopes for observing the Sun in ultraviolet. The Hubble Space Telescope and FUSE have been the most recent major space telescopes to view...

to have a high degree of homogeneity in the material. The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) selected Sitall for the manufacture of its 91 primary...

Merwe, a famous South African urologist born in Sutherland. South African Astronomical Observatory Southern African Large Telescope "Main Place Sutherland"...

The Radcliffe Telescope is a 74 in (1.9 m) optical/near-infrared reflecting telescope located at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland...

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to the constellation Virgo the Virgin. Retrieved on December 23, 2015. Southern, Nathan. Review summary and credits for The Star of Bethlehem (2007). The...

Africa has cultivated a burgeoning astronomy community. It hosts the Southern African Large Telescope, the largest optical telescope in the Southern Hemisphere...

sizes vary widely from opera glasses to large pedestal-mounted military models. Unlike a (monocular) telescope, binoculars give users a three-dimensional...

the resolution of a telescope. Without some means of correcting for the blurring effect of the shifting atmosphere, telescopes larger than about 15–20 cm...

from other telescopes. The spectrum of ASASSN-15lh was provided by the 2.5-meter du Pont Telescope in Chile. The Southern African Large Telescope was used...

is ... Now with combined data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), and others, we know that the Peekaboo Galaxy...

Gamma Ray Observatory or by specialized telescopes called atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The Cherenkov telescopes do not detect the gamma rays directly...

Authority. November 10 – The Southern African Large Telescope (Salt) in Sutherland, the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere, is inaugurated. 11...

March 2020 through October 2022. Allen Telescope Array (ATA) Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Green Bank Telescope (GBT) Lake San Agustín, which once...

was then the only large telescope for submillimetre astronomy in the southern hemisphere. It was decommissioned in 2003. The telescope was used for single-dish...

South Africa. South Africa has cultivated a burgeoning astronomy community. It hosts the Southern African Large Telescope, the largest optical telescope in...

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is a planned extremely large telescope (ELT) proposed to be built on Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawai'i. The TMT would...

the MDM Observatory on Kitt Peak, Arizona, and the Southern African Large Telescope in South Africa. The observatory was built in 1854 for Ira Young, Professor...

Astronomy Terms, Sky & Telescope Media, retrieved 2018-03-09 "ESO Astronomical Glossary", Public Outreach, European Southern Observatory, retrieved 2018-03-09...

astronomical observations in the southern hemisphere. An ESO project is the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), a 40-metre-class telescope based on a five-mirror design...