KELT
(Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope)
(pair of telescopes that searched for transients)
KELT (Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope) was a pair
of automated (robotic) telescopes searching for transiting planets,
covering the magnitude range of +8 to +10.
Each telescope had a 4.2-cm aperture and a field of view of 26×26
degrees, with a 4k×4k CCD.
KELT-North, which began operation in 2005, was at Winer Observatory
in Arizona, and KELT-South in 2009, in South Africa.
Both ceased operation in 2023 after discovering 26 exoplanets and
collecting a large database of transients that covered most
of the sky.
(survey,transits,automated,all sky,transients,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilodegree_Extremely_Little_Telescope
http://keltsurvey.org/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018haex.bookE.128P/abstract
https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/KELT.html
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Referenced by page:
South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)
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