SALTeNEWS, August 2006
The latest SALTeNEWS has been released on 10 August 2006.[more]
Africa's Giant Eye rakes in awards for Communication Excellence
PRISA Prism AwardsImages of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), interspersed with the logos of the National Research Foundation (NRF), Department of Science and Technology (DST) and SALT itself, were flashing on the big...[more]
SALTeNEWS is back with a "new look"!
This "new look" edition of SALTeNEWS was released on 15 March 2006. Read on! [more]
Indefinite Postponement of the 19 March Call for PV Proposals
In light of the continuing completion and commissioning work on SALT and its two current instruments, SALTICAM and RSS, it has been agreed with the SALT Board Executive Committee to postpone, indefinitely, the next call for SALT...[more]
Cool Solid Planet Found - 28000 Light Years Away
Planetwatch Rewarded For a decade, astronomers in South Africa (SAAO, Boyden), Chile, Australia, New Zealand (the PLANET collaboration) and (more recently) Spain and Hawaii (RoboNet) have patiently watched for planets, using...[more]
Africa’s Giant Eye Opens for Business: Official Inauguration
The construction of the single largest telescope in the southern hemisphere - SALT as it is called - will mean that in this humble home of our earliest humans, we are also building a vast gateway through which we can observe our...[more]
Revised schedule for the Performance Verification (PV) and first semester phases
Due to recent experiences and delays with telescope and instrument (SALTICAM and PFIS) commissioning, the SALT Board Executive Committee has a agreed to the following proposed revisions of both the P-V and First Semester phases...[more]
PFIS is on the tracker!
The Primary Focus Imaging Spectrograph (PFIS) was finally lifted to its final location on top of the tracker on the 11th October 2005. Despite the dome crane having been tested recently for heavier weights than PFIS, it was...[more]
Special Events: October & December 2005
The South African Astronomical Observatory will be hosting two special visitors' Open Nights on 15 October (pre) and 10 December (post) SALT Inauguration in the new SAAO Visitors' Centre in Observatory, Cape Town, to celebrate...[more]
PFIS has left the (Cape Town) building!
The Primary Focus Imaging Spectrograph (PFIS) finally left the workshop in Cape Town on the 29th September and arrived happily in Sutherland on the 30th. It is now being prepared to be installed on the telescope, which will...[more]
Last updated: 26 May 2011
