Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)

Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)
Sutherland, South Africa (ZA)
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is the largest single optical telescope in the southern hemisphere, with a hexagonal mirror array 11 metres across. Although very similar to the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) in Texas, SALT has a redesigned optical system using more of the mirror array. It will be able to record distant stars, galaxies and quasars a billion times too faint to be seen with the unaided eye - as faint as a candle flame at the distance of the moon.

SALT was completed in 2005, funded by a consortium of international partners from South Africa, the United States, Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is the largest single optical telescope in the southern hemisphere, with a hexagonal mirror array 11 metres across. Although very similar to the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) in Texas, SALT has a redesigned optical system using more of the mirror array. It will be able to record distant stars, galaxies and quasars a billion times too faint to be seen with the unaided eye - as faint as a candle flame at the distance of the moon.

SALT was completed in 2005, funded by a consortium of international partners from South Africa, the United States, Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
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Links: www.salt.ac.za
By: kjfitz

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