The Southern African Large Telescope is a 9.2-metre optical telescope designed mainly for spectroscopy. It consists of 91 hexagonal mirror segments each with a 1-metre inscribed diameter, resulting in
Southern African Large Telescope
SALT's primary mirror
Salt Mirror
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McDonald Observatory is an astronomical observatory located near the unincorporated community of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, Texas, United States. The facility is located on Mount Locke in the Da
Southern African Large Telescope
…radiation of astronomical objects that are not viewable from Northern Hemisphere telescopes. It is closely based on the Hobby–Eberly Telescope (HET) at McDonald Observatory, with some changes in its design, especially to the spherical aberration corrector. The main purpose for these changes was to improve the telescope's…
The observatory from the southeast. The Hobby–Eberly Telescope on Mt. Fowlkes (left) and the Harlan J. Smith and Otto Struve Telescopes on Mt. Locke (right).
McDonald Observatory
Dome of the 10 m Hobby-Eberly Telescope. It houses one of the largest optical telescopes in the world.
Electric motors and position sensors at the Otto Struve Telescope at the McDonald Observatory, Texas