Public Information
- "Fish-eye" view of the inside of the telescope dome! (Copyright: Janus Brink).
Welcome to the "Public Info" section of the SALT website! This section is aimed at the general public and contains the latest SALT news items and status updates. There are also pages highlighting some recent science conducted with SALT, details of the major milestones in SALT's history and lots of pictures in our picture gallery.
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Recent News on Commissioning
- An excellent quality (subarcsec) image of an Open Cluster taken with SALT on 12 Aprl 2011 demonstrating good image quality over the ~10 arcmin field of view.
Activities at SALT over the last few months have been quite frenetic with the re-installation of the two first-light instuments, SALTICAM (in March) and RSS (in April).
While the focus has been on the full commissioning of RSS, various telescope subsystems have also beenput through their paces, notably:
- the telescope's optics: we have confirmed that the telescope now delivers good images following the SAC mounting modification completed in 2010.
- pointing and tracking
- guiding and focussing: whle a little is work is still required to make the auto-guiding more effcient, it is basically now working as expected.
- installation of the atmospheric dispersion compensator (ADC) and light baffles
- commissioning of the calibration system
16 June 2011
Last updated: 16 Jun 2011
