ann24025 — Announcement
SMARTS Telescopes Return to Service
20 September 2024: At the U.S. National Science Foundation Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF NOIRLab, is a collection of four small telescopes known as the Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System (SMARTS). Between 2003 and 2023, the SMARTS Consortium operated a 0.9-meter Telescope, a 1.0-meter Telescope, a 1.3-meter Telescope, and a 1.5-meter Telescope. The partners of the original SMARTS Consortium were the American Museum of Natural History, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), the University of Delaware, Georgia State University, Ohio State University, the Space Telescope Science Institute, Stony Brook University, Vanderbilt University/Fisk Observatory and Yale University. SMARTS is continuing in a new two-facet structure and the telescopes and their work will live on under two different entities. The 1.5-meter and 0.9-meter will be operated by the Georgia State University Research Foundation and will be known as SMARTS-GSU. University of North Carolina and the …