• Telescope location : Sutherland, Northern Cape, South Africa
• Telescope elevation: 1798m above mean sea level
• Site atmospheric seeing: EE(50) = 0.91' (median)
• Telescope tilt angle: 37° from vertical
• Telescope Field-of-Regard: annulus on the sky, with width +/- 6° about tilt angle
• Declination range: -75° 22' to 10° 37'
• Maximum science integration: declination dependent (see yellow line in Figure 1)
• Primary mirror size: ~10m diameter
• Primary mirror shape: spherica
• Telescope image quality: EE(50) better than 0.6" without atmospheric seeing
• Percentage of light reaching science instrument on-axis: see Figure 2 (includes all mirror transmissions and vignetting for pupil at best position)
• Operational wavelengths: 320nm to 2500nm
• Science Field-of-View: circle of diameter 8'
• Guidance Field-of-View: circle of diameter 10' (can overlap science field of view)
• Telescope operation: queue scheduling by resident operator and astronomer
• Operational temperature range: -10°C to 25°C
• Operational wind speed: 0 to 21m/s
• Survival wind speed: 61m/s