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Science With SALT Workshop

Oct 29-31, Cape Town, South Africa
First Annoucement

Public Information & Links

SALT Home page South Africa

SALT WebCam South Africa

PFIS Home page Wisconsin

PFIS doc. page Wisconsin

Oct 2001 Meetings Wisconsin

The Telescope:

3D Computer Model April 2001	Early Construction Photos April 2001	Structure Lift - June 2002 Dome Lift - July 2002
Simulation	Reality:     Oct '01	Jul '02

How the telescope tracks:

The telescope tracks an object by moving the prime-focus instrument package, which includes the spherical aberration corrector, prime-focus instruments and fibers feeds. The images above show a computer-generated simulation of how the entrance-pupil fills the primary over the course of a target track (typically 3000-45000 sec) for the HET. SALT will have a larger entrance-pupil.

The Prime Focus Imaging Spectrograph:

Schematatics: Mechanical Layout	Optical Design

Other First-Light / First-Generation Insturments:

SALTICAM - prime-focus imager (SAAO)
HRS - fiber-fed, single object, high-resolution echelle spectrograph (U. Canterbury)

Internal access

• Meeting Reports:   Board, SSWG and other
• Calendar:   Important upcoming dates
• Record:   Board and SSWG meetings, outreach, publicity, fundraising events
• SALT Science and Instrumentation,   Mark-I, Wisconsin (Apr 28, 1999)
• PFIS Science Case,   Mark-I, Wisconsin
• HRS - desired capabilities,   Mark-I, Wisconsin (August 2000)
• HRS Science Driver Questionaire,   (New Zealand/U. Canterbury)
  Send draft of completed form to Matthew Bershady (mab@astro.wisc.edu) by NOV 1 2000.
• restricted (password needed)