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United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope Unit (U.K. Schmidt, UKST)
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United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope Unit	has mounting manufacturer Grubb-Parsons
	has longitude 149° 04' E
	has latitude 31° 16' S
	has mirror maker Grubb-Parsons
	has mirror type Cer-Vit
	has mirror diameter 1.83 m
	has aperture 1.24 m
	has focal ratio f/2.5
	has synonym U.K. Schmidt
	has acronym UKST
	has altitude 1145 m
	has owner Anglo-Australian Observatory
	has creation date 1973
	has location Siding Spring Mtn., Australia
	is an instance of Schmidt
Schmidt	has secondary mirror shape none
	has primary mirror shape concave spheroid
	has optical design Schmidt
equatorial telescope	has mounting equatorial
Earth based telescope	has temperature ambient
telescope	has wavelength sensitivity
	has angular resolving power
	has effective diameter
	has operator
	has purpose observe celestial objects
artifact	has creator
physical object	has angular momentum
	has mass
	has velocity
	has momentum
	has volume
	has extent
	has material

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