The SOAR Telescope Project Southern Observatory for Astronomical Research (SOAR)
Abstract
This document is the final report on progress in constructing the SOAR telescope. SOAR has been built with partial support from an AFRL grant (F29601-98-l-0032) to the University of North Carolina. This report is intended to provide the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) with both an overview of the work done in the past 12 months (from March 2002 through March 2003) and an overall summary of the status of the telescope and facility at the completion of the grant. SOAR is a 4.2-meter aperture telescope employing state-of-the-art technologies to deliver high-resolution images, which are limited only by the excellent seeing conditions of its site on Cerro Pachon in northern Chile. It is designed to operate from the near-ultraviolet through the
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 21, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA421038
Entities
People
- Charles R. Evans
- J. C. Clemens
Organizations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill