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Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)
subject			fact

Southern African Large Telescope	has comment A twin of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope
	has mounting altazimuth fixed in altitude but rotates in azimuth
	has longitude 20° 49'E
	has latitude 32° 23' S
	has optical design Spherical figure
	has aperture 9.1 m
	has focal ratio (f/1.4) f/4.7
	has acronym SALT
	has altitude 1798 m
	has owner South African Astronomical Obs.
	has creation date (2004)
	has location Sutherland, South Africa
	is an instance of reflector
	is an instance of optical telescope
	is an instance of altazimuth telescope
reflector	has mirror maker the person, company or institution that created the mirror
	has mirror type material and other engineering details
	has mirror diameter equal to aperture (except for Schmidt which has aperture smaller than mirror diameter)
	has secondary mirror shape
	has primary mirror shape
optical telescope	has reference astroweb
Earth based telescope	has mounting manufacturer the person, company or institution that constructed the mounting
	has temperature ambient
telescope	has wavelength sensitivity
	has angular resolving power
	has effective diameter
	has operator
	has purpose observe celestial objects
artifact	has creator
physical object	has angular momentum
	has mass
	has velocity
	has momentum
	has volume
	has extent
	has material

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