Southern African Large Telescope

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | 528 words | Copyright

Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) A reflector at the South African Astronomical Observatory, opened in 2005, with a hexagonal mirror 11.1 × 9.8 m in diameter, made of 91 hexagonal segments; the maximum effective aperture is 9.8 m. It is a modified version of the Hobby–Eberly Telescope. SALT has a fixed elevation angle of 37° from the vertical and can rotate only about its azimuth axis. SALT is a joint project of South Africa, Germany, New Zealand, Poland, the UK, and US. http://www.salt.ac.za/

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