The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), a ‘business unit’ of the National Research Foundation, is focused on optical astronomy and formally came into being in 1972, although it can directly trace its ancestry back to the Royal Cape Observatory, set up in Cape Town in 1820. SAAO’s head office still occupies the location of that ancestral institution, in the suburb of Cape Town named in its honour – Observatory. However, for the past 50 years, all its operating telescopes have been ...
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