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United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope (UKST)


United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope
A 1.2-meter Schmidt camera at Siding Spring, New South Wales, opened in 1973. Its initial task was to construct a photographic survey of the entire southern sky. UKST is jointly owned by Britain and Australia and is part of the Anglo-Australian Observatory.


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