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	Pass the SALT !
		SALT will access over 70% of the southern sky, from declination +10° to -75°, and will be able to observe suitably placed targets from 1 to 3 hours at time (twice a night for optimal positions), depending on their declination.
		SALT will be operated entirely as a queue-scheduled telescope by SALT operations staff, avoiding the expense of sending observers to the facility.
		SALT has recently achieved two significant milestones: the 'first light' of the imaging camera CCDs (on another telescope) and the installation and active control of the first seven segments.
	www.scienceinafrica.co.za /2003/october/salt.htm (914 words)

	Southern African Large Telescope
		SALT is a truly multi-national endeavour and will be a catalyst for scientific and educational co-operation between participating nations well into the 21st century.
		SALT is closely modelled on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) situated in west Texas.
		The formal inauguration of SALT is scheduled for November 2005.
	www.physics.rutgers.edu /ast/ast-salt.html (968 words)

	Southern Africal Large Telescope (SALT) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The telescope will be the most powerful single telescope in the southern hemisphere and one of the most powerful in the world.
		The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at the MacDonald Observatory reflects radical developments in telescope design which have made it possible to increase the power of telescopes at a fraction of the cost of conventional telescopes.
		Astronomers using the telescope are likely to research topics such as the early universe, quasars and active galactic nuclei, galaxy populations and the existence of planets outside the Earth's solar system.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/dpa/monpaper/98-no16/saltgov.htm (424 words)

	cooltech.iafrica.com \| features Eye on the universe
		SALT's major components are the telescope building, the telescope structure, the dome, the primary mirror and the tracker and prime focus payload.
		The telescope structure is a huge steel space frame that accommodates the primary mirror, the tracker and the prime focus payload.
		When the telescope is moved to a target, it is lifted off the concrete pier on a cushion of air provided by eight air-bearing pads — one on either side of the four legs of the base wedge.
	cooltech.iafrica.com /features/637480.htm (839 words)

	First-light for Africa's giant eye: First color images from SALT
		SALT is the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere, and equal to the largest in the world.
		"SALT was an initiative of South African astronomers that won support from the South African government, not simply because it was a leap forward in astronomical technology, but because of the host of spin-off benefits it could bring to the country", said project scientist David Buckley.
		SALT is truly representative of the century in which it has been built, since not only is it a sophisticated computer controlled precision instrument, but it is also an Internet-age telescope.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-09/cmu-ffa083105.php (2006 words)

	Southern African Large Telescope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is a 10 metre (~32.8 feet) diameter optical telescope, located in the semi-desert region of the Karoo, South Africa.
		SALT is the biggest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere, and equal to the largest in the world.
		SALT is located at 32°22′33.62″S, 20°48′38.44″E, on a hilltop in a nature reserve 370 km (230 miles) north-east of Cape Town, near the small town of Sutherland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_African_Large_Telescope (434 words)

	Southern African Large Telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		SALT will be the biggest Telescope in the southern hemisphere.
		SALT will be built on a hilltop in a nature reserve, 370 km (230 miles) northeast of Cape Town, near the small town of Sutherland.
		SALT will probe quasars and enable scientists to view stars and galaxies a billion times too faint to be seen by the naked eye.
	southern-african-large-telescope.iqnaut.net (249 words)

	Rutgers Research Highlights: First Light for Southern African Telescope
		SALT joins six other smaller telescopes on a South African mountaintop near the edge of the Kalahari desert.
		Rutgers and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, another SALT partner, are deploying an advanced instrument package on the telescope that will give astronomers new insights into the building blocks of the universe – from dust clouds to star clusters to distant galaxies.
		SALT is one of several activities that Rutgers has undertaken in South Africa.
	ur.rutgers.edu /medrel/science/Salt2.shtml (487 words)

	SALT: Africa's eye on the universe - SouthAfrica.info
		President Thabo Mbeki officially inaugurated the R200-million (US$36-million) Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland in the remote Northern Cape on 10 November 2005.
		With a hexagonal mirror array 11 metres in diameter, the telescope is the largest in the southern hemisphere and among the 10 biggest in the world.
		SALT will be one of the leading instruments of its kind, enabling local and international scientists to see distant stars, galaxies and quasars a billion times too faint to be visible to the naked eye - as faint as a candle's flame at the distance of the moon.
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/scitech/salt-telescope.htm (488 words)

	Vox of Dartmouth - A new window into deep space - 09/26/05
		One of the "first light" images taken by the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), showing an ancient cluster of several hundred thousand stars over 100 light years across, located on the edge of the Milky Way galaxy about 15,000 light years from Earth.
		SALT is the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere, and one of the three largest in the world.
		Fesen, one of Dartmouth's SALT project leaders, said that the location in South Africa, on a hilltop near the tiny town of Sutherland, is one of the darkest places on earth.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~vox/0506/0926/telescope.html (513 words)

	Southern African Large Telescope makes its debut
		The light-gathering capability of SALT will allow astronomers to study motions in the gas clouds, perhaps leading them to revise ideas of how stars are born.
		SALT is located on the grounds of the South African Astronomical Observatory near Sutherland, about 220 miles inland from Cape Town.
		SALT's design involves rotating the telescope at its base to select a portion of sky for observation, then moving instruments at the top of the telescope to precisely track specific objects.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-09/rtsu-sal090105.php (736 words)

	First light for giant southern telescope - space - 02 September 2005 - New Scientist Space
		The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is the largest single-aperture telescope in the southern hemisphere, with a 10 by 11-metre segmented mirror.
		SALT uses a simple design pioneered by the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at the University of Texas, which meant the government-owned South African Astronomical Observatory could build it for a mere $18 million.
		The telescope's main mirror, made of 91 hexagonal segments, is tilted at a fixed angle to the ground.
	space.newscientist.com /article/dn7939-first-light-for-giant-southern-telescope.html (538 words)

	SALT: Africa's eye on the universe - SouthAfrica.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Construction of the US$30-million Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), at 11 metres in diameter the largest in the southern hemisphere, is well advanced at the SA Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland in the remote Northern Cape, with the official opening set for 11 November.
		With a hexagonal mirror array 11m across, SALT will be one of the leading instruments of its kind, enabling local and international scientists to see distant stars, galaxies and quasars a billion times too faint to be visible to the naked eye - as faint as a candle's flame at the distance of the moon.
		SALT's shareholders are South Africa's National Research Foundation (34.4%), Dartmouth College (14%), the University of Wisconsin-Madison (14%), the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences (11%), Rutgers University (10%), the UK SALT Consortium (4%), the University of Canterbury (4%), Goettingen University (4%), Carnegie-Mellon University (3%) and the University of North Carolina (3%).
	www.southafrica.info /what_happening/news/features/salt-telescope.htm (615 words)

	Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The announcement that the government has approved funding for the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) at Sutherland is of immense importance to the development of science in South Africa and at UCT.
		The telescope would not be a general purpose telescope, which would have cost five times as much for an instrument of the same size and power.
		SALT would be a major technological project which would ensure that South African science remains internationally competitive well into the 21st century.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/dpa/monpaper/98-no16/saltuct.htm (346 words)

	Giant optical telescope in South Africa comes online (Sep 1, 2005)
		Five years after breaking ground on a South African mountaintop near the edge of the Kalahari desert, astronomers today (Sept. 1, 2005) released the first images captured by the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), now the equal of the world's largest optical telescope and a prized window to the night skies of the southern hemisphere.
		A critical advantage for the SALT Telescope, according to astronomers, is its location in one of the darkest regions of the world.
		Together with Rutgers University, another member of the SALT consortium, Wisconsin astronomers and engineers have constructed and are now integrating into the observatory the primary scientific instrument for the telescope, a device known as the Prime Focus Imaging Spectrograph.
	www.news.wisc.edu /11478.html (1082 words)

	South Africa eyes astronomy's top prize \| Research \| EducationGuardian.co.uk
		It is called the Southern African Large Telescope, or Salt, and it is one of cosmology's newest and most valuable instruments for studying the universe.
		The government provided 35% of the funding for Salt - the rest is shared by foreign institutions - and a proper road link to it from its nearest town, Sutherland, where guesthouses have names such as Jupiter and Galaxy.
		Size matters: the government's enthusiasm for Salt, which cost £11.5m to build and £20m to run for the first decade, perked up when told it would be the biggest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/research/story/0,,1708634,00.html (893 words)

	CANOPUS 98/08 - SALT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The original proposal for SALT was to build a general purpose 4m class telescope using thin-mirror technology with active and adaptive optics.
		The telescope itself is housed in an aluminium geodesic dome 26m in diameter weighing 52 tonnes.
		The SALT announcement made a commitment to education and public awareness and it is anticipated that the present YEAST project "Friends with the Universe" will be extended and continued in years to come.
	www.aqua.co.za /assa_jhb/Canopus/c988salt.htm (1351 words)

	McGraw-Hill \| AccessScience Image of the Week
		An advantage of SALT is its location, one of the darkest areas of the world, with much less light pollution than in the Northern Hemisphere to hinder observations.
		SALT is a ground telescope with a fixed elevation angle; however, it can rotate 540° in azimuth, and its laser tracking system has a movement range of 12 degrees.
		The SALT primary mirror is composed of 91 sections, each a meter (3.3 ft) wide, and tilted at 37°.
	www.accessscience.com /Newsletter/IOW_09_11_05.html (316 words)

	Color Images from South African Large Telescope Mark 'First-Light' for Africa's Giant Eye
		Exactly five years after groundbreaking, the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) has released its first color images marking "first light" for Africa's giant eye and the start of an ambitious international effort conceived in 1998 with Carnegie Mellon University as a central partner.
		Located in the Karoo town of Sutherland, South Africa, SALT is the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere.
		Astronomers will now be able to study the southern skies and its objects that are critically important to modern astronomy but not discernable by telescopes in the northern hemisphere.
	www.cmu.edu /cmnews/extra/050902_salt.html (337 words)

	NSO: Astronomy: The Southern African Large Telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		At 11 metres in diameter, the Southern Africa Large Telescope (SALT) is the largest single optical telescope in the southern hemisphere, able to detect stars one billion times dimmer than the faintest visible to the unaided eye.
		The main mirror, however, is not one single piece of glass, but made up of 91 hexagonal mirror segments which are all carefully joined and aligned to reflect the light as if they were one mirror.
		SALT is of a slightly different design to most large telescopes in that it points at a fixed angle of 37° (i.e.
	www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk /astro/textb/tele/world/salt.htm (181 words)

	New Telescope Will Open Up Southern Skies
		A huge advantage for the SALT Telescope is its location in one of the darkest regions of the world.
		It is meant to inspire a new generation of African scientists, which will be the lasting value of SALT to Southern Africa." He added that there were only a handful, perhaps as few as three, fl South Africans with Ph.Ds in astronomy.
		The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) was constructed by an international consortium of universities and government agencies.
	www.scienceagogo.com /news/20050801225020data_trunc_sys.shtml (868 words)

	Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)
		The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is a truly multinational project that will shed light upon some of the oldest questions astronomers have asked about the age and scale of the universe, and will be able to see objects a billion times too faint to be seen by the naked eye.
		The SALT project is managed by a team based at the SALT Headquarters at Sutherland and South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town.
		SALT is a fixed altitude telescope and can access 70% of the sky observable from Sutherland during specific windows of opportunity.
	star.arm.ac.uk /SALT (877 words)

	ITT Defense Electronics and Services
		November 10, 2005 –; ITT and the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) today announced the inauguration of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), the largest single telescope in the southern hemisphere.
		SALT incorporates ITT mirror segment technology that allows scientists to record distant stars, galaxies and quasars a billion times too faint to be seen with the unaided eye.
		SALT is the most recent in a series of large-scale, segmented primary mirror observatory projects that ITT has worked on over the past twenty years.
	www.defense.itt.com /news_10.htm (394 words)

	Signing of Southern African Large Telescope agreement marks major milestone 01/2000
		Robert Stobie, chairman of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) Board of Directors, and Dr. Frank Bash, chairman of the Hobby¬Eberly Telescope (HET) Board of Directors, signed the agreement on Wednesday (Jan. 26).
		The Hobby-Eberly Telescope is located at McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis and is a research facility of The University of Texas at Austin's department of astronomy.
		The the Hobby-Eberly Telescope partnership is providing its innovative telescope design, software, commissioning experience, and technical expertise in exchange for 10 percent of observing time when SALT begins operations, scheduled for 2003.
	www.utexas.edu /opa/news/00newsreleases/nr_200001/nr_tele000128.html (509 words)

	Home: SAAO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) is the national centre for optical and infrared astronomy in South Africa.
		It is a facility of the National Research Foundation under the Department of Science and Technology.
		The main telescopes used for research are located at the SAAO observing station near Sutherland in the Northern Cape, a 4 hour drive from Cape Town.
	www.saao.ac.za (142 words)

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