Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) project: Progress and status after two years

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4837, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 11-25

  Meiring, J G ^a   Buckley, D A H ^a   Lomberg, M C ^a   Stobie, R S ^b  

^a SALT   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

10 m class telescope; Instruments; Optical near IR astronomy; SALT; Segmented mirrors

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COSTS; GLASS CERAMICS; INFRARED IMAGING; MIRRORS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

LARGE TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038523727     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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