Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) Project: Progress and status after four years

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 592-602

  Meiring, J G ^a,b   Buckley, D A H ^a  

^a SALT Foundation   (South Africa)

^b SALT   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Design; Operation; Progress; SALT; Specification

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DOMES; OBSERVATORIES; PRODUCT DESIGN; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SPECTROGRAPHS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); VACUUM;

GRUBB-PARSONS REFLECTOR; PRIME FOCUS TRACER; ROBOTIC SOLAR TELESCOPES; WHOLE EARTH TELESCOPE;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444286664     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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