SkyMapper

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SkyMapper
Organization	RSAA
Location	Siding Spring Observatory
Altitude	1163 m^[1]
Wavelength	325–969 nm^[1]
Built	November 2007
First light	pending
Telescope style	Modified Cassegrain
Diameter	1.35 m
Angular resolution	1.1″ median seeing limit 0.5″ pixel size^[1]
Collecting area	1.16 m²
Focal length	6.2 m
Mounting	altitude/azimuth
Dome	11.5 m tall, 6.25 m dia
Website	http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/skymapper/

SkyMapper 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.

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^ ^a ^b ^c S. C. Keller; B. P. Schmidt; M. S. Bessell; P. G. Conroy; P. Francis; A. Granlund; E. Kowald; A. P. Oates; et al. (2007-05-04), “The SkyMapper Telescope and The Southern Sky Survey”, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 24 (1): 1–12, doi:10.1071/AS07001, <http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~stefan/skymapper/SkyMapperOCD.pdf>. Retrieved on 25 March 2008

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The SkyMapper project

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