- SkyMapper
Infobox Telescope
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name=SkyMapper
caption=
organization=RSAA
location=Siding Spring Observatory
coords=
altitude=1163 mCitation |title=The SkyMapper Telescope and The Southern Sky Survey |journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=1–12 |date=2007-05-04 |url=http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~stefan/skymapper/SkyMapperOCD.pdf |accessdate=2008-03-25 |author1=S. C. Keller |author2=B. P. Schmidt |author3=M. S. Bessell |author4=P. G. Conroy |author5=P. Francis |author6=A. Granlund |author7=E. Kowald |author8=A. P. Oates |author9=T. Martin-Jones |author10=T. Preston |author11=P. Tisserand |author12=A. Vaccarella |author13=M. F. Waterson |doi=10.1071/AS07001]
weather=
wavelength=325–969 nm
built=November 2007
first_light="pending"
website=http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/skymapper/
style=Modified Cassegrain
diameter=1.35 m
angular_resolution=1.1″ medianseeing limit
0.5″ pixel size
area=1.16 m²
focal_length=6.2 m
mounting=altitude/azimuth
dome=11.5 m tall, 6.25 m diaSkyMapper is a 1.35m survey telescope under construction by the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (
Mount Stromlo Observatory ). The telescope features a 268-million pixel Cassegrain Imager with a 5.7 square degree field of view.The SkyMapper telescope is designed to carry out the Stromlo Southern Sky Survey (S3), a multi-color, multi-epoch survey of the southern sky. S3 will be analogous to the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the North hemisphere with several enhancements, including temporal coverage, more precise measurements of stellar properties and coverage of large part of the Galactic Plane.References
External links
* [http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/skymapper The SkyMapper project]
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