SOAR 4m Telescope

Stan Hart, NOAO RET

Related Links

Background information about the SOAR Telescope

SOAR Telescope Home Page
The official homepage of the SOAR Telescope.
http://www.soartelescope.org/

SOARCam
Live images of the SOAR Construction site.
http://www.soartelescope.org/Live_Camera/live_camera.html

Telescopes lecture notes
A text only website with links to several interesting and informative astronomy sites.
http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/steinn/Astro1/Lectures/lec7.html

HOW THINGS WORK: Telescopes and Microscopes
A University of Virginia website that explains how telescopes work.
http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW/telescopes_and_microscopes.html

SOAR Telescope: Construction Begins!
The University of North Carolina SOAR website has basic information about the telescope and its mission.
http://www.physics.unc.edu/soar/index.html

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
The Cerro Pachón home site featuring a site map and links to related articles.
http://www.ctio.noao.edu/ctio.html

Window on the Universe Campaign
A fundraising site run by Michigan State University with links to SOAR and general astronomy information.
http://pads1.pa.msu.edu/soarmsu/campaign.htm

More Advanced Information about the SOAR Telescope

The SOAR 4m Telescope
An NOAO website devoted to the progress of the SOAR telescope and other projects at Cerro Pachón.
http://ctios6.ctio.noao.edu/soar/

Concept Design for SOAR Telescope
An abstract of a SOAR telescope concept design paper presented at the January, 1999 meeting of the AAS
http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v30n4/aas193/298.htm

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