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Anglo-Australian Telescope

(AAT)
(3.9 m reflector telescope in Australia)

The Anglo-Australian Telescope is a 3.9 m equatorial mounted reflector telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, built in 1974. Among its instruments:

Former:

Future:

2dF was commissioned in the mid 1990s, incorporating its own two spectrographs, plus a robot to position 392 fibers (for 392 targets) for either spectrograph while the other one was observing, imaging a circular 2°-diameter region of the of the celestial sphere covering more than 3 square degrees. Around 2006, the two spectrographs were replaced by the more advanced AAOmega.


(telescope,reflector,ground,Australia)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Australian_Telescope
https://aat.anu.edu.au/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006SPIE.6269E..0GS/abstract

Referenced by pages:
2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS)
2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey (2SLAQ)
Dark Energy Survey (DES)
DEVILS
equatorial mount
fiber positioner
GALAH
GAMA
Hawaii K-band Galaxy Survey
HERMES
monolithic mirror
rare designator prefixes
RESOLVE­
Siding Spring Observatory (SSO)
Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5)
Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets (UESAC)
WiggleZ

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