First-light For Africa's Giant Eye: First Color Images From SALT
5th Sep 2005, 15:42 GMT
Five years after groundbreaking, the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) project has released its first color images, marking the achievement of 'first light' and the successful debut of SALTICAM, a $600 000 digital camera built for SALT at the South African Astronomical Observatory. SALT is the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere, and equal to the largest in the world. SALT can detect objects as faint as a candle flame on the moon.
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