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South African Astronomical Observatory, the Glossary

South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) is the national centre for optical and infrared astronomy in South Africa.^[1]

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1972 establishments in South Africa
Astronomical observatories in South Africa
Research institutes established in 1972

Alan William James Cousins

Alan William James Cousins FRAS (8 August 1903 – 11 May 2001) was a South African astronomer.

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Astronomical Society of Southern Africa

The Astronomical Society of Southern Africa (ASSA), formed in 1922, is a widespread body consisting of both amateur and professional astronomers.

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Astronomical survey

An astronomical survey is a general map or image of a region of the sky (or of the whole sky) that lacks a specific observational target.

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Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos.

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Astrophysics

Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena.

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Binary star

A binary star or binary star system is a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other.

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Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network

The Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON) consists of a network of six remote solar observatories monitoring low-degree solar oscillation modes.

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Boyden Observatory is an astronomical research observatory and science education centre located in Maselspoort, north-east of the city of Bloemfontein in Free State, South Africa. South African Astronomical Observatory and Boyden Observatory are astronomical observatories in South Africa.

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C/2015 G2 (MASTER)

C/2015 G2 (MASTER) is a comet discovered April 7, 2015 by MASTER, the Mobile Astronomical System of the Telescope-Robots at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO).

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Canary Islands

The Canary Islands (Canarias), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Cape Town

Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.

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CHAMP (satellite)

Challenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP) was a German satellite launched July 15, 2000 from Plesetsk, Russia and was used for atmospheric and ionospheric research, as well as other geoscientific applications, such as GPS radio occultation, gravity field determination, and studying the Earth's magnetic field.

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Circumbinary planet

A circumbinary planet is a planet that orbits two stars instead of one.

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Comet

A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing.

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Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is a South African scientific research and development (R&D) organisation.

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David Gill (astronomer)

Sir David Gill (12 June 1843 – 24 January 1914) was a Scottish astronomer who is known for measuring astronomical distances, for astrophotography and geodesy.

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Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky

The Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky (DENIS) was a deep astronomical survey of the southern sky in the near-infrared and optical wavelengths, using an ESO 1-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory.

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Department of Science and Innovation

The Department of Science and Innovation (DST; formerly the Department of Science and Technology) is the South African government department responsible for scientific research, including space programmes.

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Department of Space

The Department of Space (DoS) is an Indian government department responsible for administration of the Indian space programme.

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Exoplanet

An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System.

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Galaxy

A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity.

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Goddard Space Flight Center

The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States.

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GRACE and GRACE-FO

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) was a joint mission of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

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Grubb Parsons

Grubb Parsons (legally 'Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd.') was a historic manufacturer of telescopes, active in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory

The Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) is a radio astronomy observatory, located in a natural bowl of hills at Hartebeesthoek just south of the Magaliesberg mountain range, and about 50 km west of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. South African Astronomical Observatory and Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory are astronomical observatories in South Africa.

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Hobby–Eberly Telescope

The Hobby–Eberly Telescope (HET) is a 10-meter (30-foot) aperture telescope located at the McDonald Observatory in Davis Mountains, Texas.

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Infrared

Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than microwaves.

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IRIS Consortium

IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology) was a university research consortium dedicated to exploring the Earth's interior through the collection and distribution of seismographic data.

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Korea

Korea (translit in South Korea, or label in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula (label in South Korea, or label in North Korea), Jeju Island, and smaller islands.

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La Palma

La Palma, also known as La isla bonita and historically San Miguel de La Palma, is the most northwesterly island of the Canary Islands, Spain, which is a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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List of Canon products

The following provides a partial list of products manufactured under the '''Canon''' brand.

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List of observatory codes

This is a list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center.

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McDonald Observatory

McDonald Observatory is an astronomical observatory located near unincorporated community of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, Texas, United States.

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MeerKAT

MeerKAT, originally the Karoo Array Telescope, is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. South African Astronomical Observatory and MeerKAT are astronomical observatories in South Africa.

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Meridian arc

In geodesy and navigation, a meridian arc is the curve between two points on the Earth's surface having the same longitude.

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Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

The is one of the eleven ministries of Japan that composes part of the executive branch of the government of Japan.

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Modified Dall–Kirkham telescope

The Modified Dall-Kirkham telescope utilizes an elliptical primary and spherical secondary mirror as in the conventional Dall-Kirkham configuration, but also includes a lens group (usually two or three lens elements) ahead of the focal point to improve off-axis image quality.

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Natal Observatory

The Natal Observatory was an astronomical observatory in the Colony of Natal (now the KwaZulu-Natal province of the Republic of South Africa) from 1882 to 1911. South African Astronomical Observatory and Natal Observatory are astronomical observatories in South Africa.

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National Research Foundation (South Africa)

South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) is the intermediary agency between the policies and strategies of the Government of South Africa and South Africa's research institutions.

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Noon Gun

The Noon Gun has been a historic time signal in Cape Town, South Africa since 1806.

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Observatory, Cape Town

Observatory is a suburb in Cape Town, South Africa, colloquially known as Obs.

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Ohio State University

The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

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Osaka University

, abbreviated as OU or, is a national research university in Osaka, Japan.

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Pound sterling

Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.

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Pretoria

Pretoria, is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa.

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Probing Lensing Anomalies Network

The Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork (PLANET) collaboration coordinates a network of telescopes to rapidly sample photometric measurements of the magnification of stars in the galactic bulge undergoing gravitational microlensing by intervening foreground stars (or other compact massive objects).

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Quasar

A quasar is an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN).

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Radboud University Nijmegen

Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, Radboud Universiteit, formerly) is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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Radcliffe Observatory

Radcliffe Observatory was the astronomical observatory of the University of Oxford from 1773 until 1934, when the Radcliffe Trustees sold it and built a new observatory in Pretoria, South Africa. South African Astronomical Observatory and Radcliffe Observatory are astronomical observatories in South Africa.

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Radcliffe Telescope

The Radcliffe Telescope is a optical/near-infrared reflecting telescope located at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland, Northern Cape, South Africa.

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Remote Telescope Markup Language

The Remote Telescope Markup Language (RTML) is an XML dialect for controlling remote and/or robotic telescopes.

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Retrograde and prograde motion

Retrograde motion in astronomy is, in general, orbital or rotational motion of an object in the direction opposite the rotation of its primary, that is, the central object (right figure).

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Ritchey–Chrétien telescope

A Ritchey–Chrétien telescope (RCT or simply RC) is a specialized variant of the Cassegrain telescope that has a hyperbolic primary mirror and a hyperbolic secondary mirror designed to eliminate off-axis optical errors (coma).

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Robotic telescope

A robotic telescope is an astronomical telescope and detector system that makes observations without the intervention of a human.

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Roque de los Muchachos Observatory

Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, ORM) is an astronomical observatory located in the municipality of Garafía on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain.

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Royal Medal

The Royal Medal, also known as The Queen's Medal and The King's Medal (depending on the gender of the monarch at the time of the award), is a silver-gilt medal, of which three are awarded each year by the Royal Society, two for "the most important contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge" and one for "distinguished contributions in the applied sciences", done within the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope

The Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, is a former scientific institution in South Africa. South African Astronomical Observatory and Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope are astronomical observatories in South Africa.

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SAAO Library

The SAAO Library is the national library of the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) for astronomy and space science located in Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa.

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SANSA Space Science

SANSA Space Science, previously the Hermanus Magnetic Observatory (HMO) is South Africa's national geomagnetic research facility.

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Science and Engineering Research Council

The Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) and its predecessor the Science Research Council (SRC) were the UK agencies in charge of publicly funded scientific and engineering research activities, including astronomy, biotechnology and biological sciences, space research and particle physics, between 1965 and 1994.

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Signal Hill (Cape Town)

Signal Hill (Seinheuwel), or Lion's Rump, is a landmark flat-topped hill located in Cape Town, next to Lion's Head and Table Mountain.

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Southern African Large Telescope

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is a 9.2-metre optical telescope designed mainly for spectroscopy. South African Astronomical Observatory and Southern African Large Telescope are astronomical observatories in South Africa.

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Star

A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity.

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Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) is a non-profit international student organization whose purpose is to drive space advocacy of space exploration and development through educational and engineering projects.

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Sutherland, South Africa

Sutherland is a town with about 2,841 inhabitants in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Thomas Maclear

Sir Thomas Maclear (17 March 1794 – 14 July 1879) was an Irish-born Cape Colony astronomer who became Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope.

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UCL Observatory

UCL Observatory (called the University of London Observatory until 2015) at Mill Hill in London is an astronomical teaching observatory.

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Union Observatory

Union Observatory also known as Johannesburg Observatory (078) is a defunct astronomical observatory in Johannesburg, South Africa that was operated between 1903 and 1971. South African Astronomical Observatory and Union Observatory are astronomical observatories in South Africa.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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University of Cape Town

The University of Cape Town (UCT)(Universiteit van Kaapstad, iYunivesithi yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa.

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University of Göttingen

The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, commonly referred to as Georgia Augusta) is a distinguished public research university in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland.

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Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee.

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WASP-17b

WASP-17b is an exoplanet in the constellation Scorpius that is orbiting the star WASP-17.

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Wide Angle Search for Planets

WASP or Wide Angle Search for Planets is an international consortium of several academic organisations performing an ultra-wide angle search for exoplanets using transit photometry. South African Astronomical Observatory and Wide Angle Search for Planets are astronomical observatories in South Africa.

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Yonsei University

Yonsei University is a Christian private university in Seoul, South Korea.

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2MASS

The Two Micron All-Sky Survey, or 2MASS, was an astronomical survey of the whole sky in infrared light.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Astronomical_Observatory

Also known as Cape Observatory, MASTER-SAAO Telescope, Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria, SAAO, South African Observatory, The Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, Victoria telescope, YSTAR, Yonsei Survey Telescopes for Astronomical Research.

, Remote Telescope Markup Language, Retrograde and prograde motion, Ritchey–Chrétien telescope, Robotic telescope, Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, Royal Medal, Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, SAAO Library, SANSA Space Science, Science and Engineering Research Council, Signal Hill (Cape Town), Southern African Large Telescope, Star, Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, Sutherland, South Africa, The New York Times, Thomas Maclear, UCL Observatory, Union Observatory, University of Cambridge, University of Cape Town, University of Göttingen, University of Maryland, College Park, Vanderbilt University, WASP-17b, Wide Angle Search for Planets, Yonsei University, 2MASS.

South African Astronomical Observatory, the Glossary

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See also

1972 establishments in South Africa

Astronomical observatories in South Africa

Research institutes established in 1972

References