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African Eyes on the Sky: The Southern African Large Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Petri Väisänen  and
David A. H. Buckley
Petri Väisänen
Affiliation:
South African Astronomical Observatory, P.O. Box 9, Observatory 7935, South Africa email: petri@saao.ac.za, dibnob@saao.ac.za Southern African Large Telescope Foundation, P.O. Box 9, Observatory 7935, South Africa
David A. H. Buckley
Affiliation:
South African Astronomical Observatory, P.O. Box 9, Observatory 7935, South Africa email: petri@saao.ac.za, dibnob@saao.ac.za Southern African Large Telescope Foundation, P.O. Box 9, Observatory 7935, South Africa
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Abstract

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A 10-metre class telescope project on African soil is ending its commissioning period and is transitioning to science mode. We present the current status of the Southern African Large Telescope and its instruments. We will also briefly discuss the SALT capabilities for extragalactic astronomy in particular.

Keywords

telescopesinstrumentation: spectrographs
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S277: Tracing the Ancestry of Galaxies (on the land of our ancestors) , December 2010 , pp. 108 - 111
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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