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Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) | ||||
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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 | |
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