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  1. Re:South Africa? by musmax · · Score: 1 · on SKA Might Be Split Between South Africa and Australia

    SALT of the earth. And yet even with the great exodus of skills some dedicated people still pull stuff like this off: http://www.salt.ac.za/fileadmin/files/talks/DoDInLights.avi I love SA but I'm not going back, not before changes happen that would be unlikely in my lifetime.

  2. How poetic by w.timmeh · · Score: 1 · on SALT launching on 11 November

    Apparently this new telescope has proven quite a literary inspiration:
    http://www.salt.ac.za/science/first-light/poetry/

    I'm holding out for the haiku though.

  3. Artifacts on First Light images by marat · · Score: 1 · on SALT launching on 11 November

    First Light Images - they are superb, but are there always so many artifacts in the beginning? Is there some calibration procedure still waiting to be performed? Stars shaped like, well, stars are understandable, but how came I can see some jamb-looking object with a size of our galaxy (I may be mistaken by several billion times) in the corner of Lagoon Nebula 2?

  4. Artifacts on First Light images by marat · · Score: 1 · on SALT launching on 11 November

    First Light Images - they are superb, but are there always so many artifacts in the beginning? Is there some calibration procedure still waiting to be performed? Stars shaped like, well, stars are understandable, but how came I can see some jamb-looking object with a size of our galaxy (I may be mistaken by several billion times) in the corner of Lagoon Nebula 2?

  5. Southern African Large Telescope... by reg · · Score: 3, Informative · on World's Largest Telescope Begins Production

    For something a little closer to completion than 2016, check out the Southern African Large Telescope. Scheduled to open in November, and will be the biggest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere.

    Regards,
    -Jeremy