UK Schmidt Telescope
(UKST)
(1.2 meter telescope in Australia with wide field-of-view)
The UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST) is a 1.24-meter Schmidt camera
at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, in operation since 1973,
currently operated by the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO).
Its field of view is 6° by 6°, intended for surveys,
originally using photography, and for years it continually surveyed,
producing a large set of plates still available, e.g., for
proper motion studies.
More recently, it has been the home of a
multi-object spectrograph, 6dF, and
as of 2017, of TAIPAN.
(telescope,reflector,ground,Australia)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Schmidt_Telescope
http://www.roe.ac.uk/ifa/wfau/ukstu/
https://rsaa.anu.edu.au/observatories/telescopes/united-kingdom-schmidt-telescope-ukst
https://astralis.org.au/projects/taipan/
Referenced by pages:
6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS)
Abell Catalog
APM Galaxy Survey (APMUKS)
Arp-Madore Catalog of Southern Peculiar Galaxies (AM)
Duus-Newell catalog (DN)
fiber positioner
Large Bright QSO Survey (LBQS)
Schmidt camera
Siding Spring Observatory (SSO)
SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey (SSS)
TAIPAN
Tonantzintla Surveys (Ton)
UK Schmidt Survey
Index