Speaker
Description
I will provide an overview of the telescopes owned, operated and hosted by the South African Astronomical Observatory, a national facility of the National Research Foundation of South Africa, at the observing site near Sutherland in the Northern Cape of South Africa. This includes the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), 3 SAAO 1-m class telescopes and a number of international hosted facilities, many of which have data and time-sharing agreements with the SAAO. I will describe recent updates, and ongoing projects to upgrade the instrumentation and functioning of the telescopes with a view to enabling intelligent automated follow-up of transients in the era of large surveys. I will touch on plans for an African Integrated Telescope Network as part of the Intelligent Observatory project.
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