# SALT

*Observatory*

South African Astronomical Observatory, Sutherland

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 32.3800° S, 20.8100° E |
| State | ZA |
| What is done there | optical observatory |
| Main mirror | 10 m |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is a 9.2-metre optical telescope designed mainly for spectroscopy. It consists of 91 hexagonal mirror segments each with a 1-metre inscribed diameter, resulting in a total hexagonal mirror of 11.1 by 9.8 m.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=-32.38,20.81
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_African_Large_Telescope
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.