Optical camera for a 14-inch telescope in Namibia Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/optical-camera-for-a-14-inch-telescope-in-namibia/ Astronomy for a better world! Thu, 01 Feb 2018 07:06:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg Optical camera for a 14-inch telescope in Namibia Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/optical-camera-for-a-14-inch-telescope-in-namibia/ 32 32 update: Project delays https://astro4dev.org/update-project-delays/ Thu, 01 Feb 2018 07:06:09 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=17169 The project received substantial financial support from the University of Namibia Department of Physics which was used towards the purchase of a camera system for the telescope, as described in the project. The project team then invited experts from South Africa to help set-up the system after it had finally arrived in Namibia. During test [...]

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]]> Overview of the project https://astro4dev.org/overview-of-the-project-49/ Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:16:33 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=13306 Project leader: Michael Backes, mbackes@unam.na Project location: Windhoek, Namibia Project description: This project is centered on purchasing an optical camera for the use with a 14-inch telescope in Windhoek, Namibia. Namibia is home to the world’s largest gamma-ray experiment, the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) project. Also, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope will partly [...]

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