LAMOST
The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) has been constructed as one of the Chinese National Mega-Science Projects. LAMOST is a quasi-meridian reflecting Schmidt telescope with the optical axis fixed on the meridian plane. The aperture of LAMOST is 4m, which could enable us to obtain spectra of objects as faint as 20m.5 with an exposure time of 1.5 hour. The focal plane of LAMOST is 1.75m in diameter, corresponding to a 5°field of view. Being accommodated as many as 4000 optical fibers, the light from 4000 celestial objects could be led into 16 spectrographs and 4000 spectra could be acquired simultaneously.
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FAST
FAST — the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, is an ongoing mega-science project in China. It is pointed by moving the focus cabin and adjusting the shape of the illuminated reflector from a sphere to a paraboloid simultaneously. Being the world’s largest single dish telescope, FAST will enable astronomers to jumpstart many of science goals. The first light is expected to be in 2014.
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