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SAAO/SALT Science Highlights 8
A series of interviews with astronomers and students.
Prof. Michael Feast and Prof. Patricia Whitelock talk about their study of Cepheid variable stars. -
SAAO/SALT Science Highlights 7
A series of interviews with astronomers and students.
Dr. Sudhanshu Barway talks about some of the interesting features of lenticular galaxies. -
SAAO/SALT Science Highlights 6
A series of interviews with astronomers and students.
Liz Bartlett, a postdoctoral fellow at UCT, talks about her research of high-mass X-ray binary systems and PhD. student Itumeleng Monageng shares his work studying a sub-class of these systems called Be/X-ray binaries. -
SAAO/SALT Science Highlights 5
A series of interviews with astronomers and students.
Dr. Patrick Woudt explains how they used SALT's High Resolution Spectrograph (HRS) and Robert Stobie Spectrograph (RSS) to study the evolution of novas. -
SAAO/SALT Science Highlights 4
A series of interviews with astronomers and students.
Dr. Brent Miszalski and Prof. Joanna Mikołajewska discuss the composition and dynamics of binary star systems. -
SAAO/SALT Science Highlights 3
A series of interviews with astronomers and students.
SAAO director Dr. Ted Williams and PhD. student Blaise Tapsoba discuss the various methods they use to measure the motions of the galaxies. -
SAAO/SALT Science Highlights 2
A series of interviews with astronomers and students.
Dr. Petri Vaisanen talks about cool stars and the solar system's recent close encounter with one. -
SAAO/SALT Science Highlights 1
A series of interviews with astronomers and students.
In this part Dr. David Buckley and PhD. student Hannes Breytenbach discuss magnetic cataclysmic variables and how they were able to make use of SALT's high time resolution capabilities to observe a system of this type. -
SALT In 59 Seconds
A night of observing compressed into one minute. -
A day in the life of an astronomer
A SALT astronomer takes us through her observing run at the telescope. -
SAAO Gravitational Wave Documentary
The video explores the relevance and power of the 4th industrial revolution and its applications in our modern day society. This exploration is done through revisiting the detection of the gravitational waves by the Southern African Large Telescope and the MASTERS telescope in Sutherland. The Gravitational Waves were predicted by Albert Einstein. Through using the Intelligent Observatory which utilises 4IR methods , South African based telescopes were the first to detect the gravitational waves. The video further explores the modern day use of 4IR methods such as, data management, data mining and data visualisation, using the detection of the gravitational waves and the intelligent observatory as examples.