SALT is the largest (optical) telescope in the southern hemisphere, and was built here in South Africa. On the 1st of September, they released the first images from the telescope to the public (official launch date is November 10th). First light imagery even made APOD on the 5th :-)
See the Slashdot Article (original article written by the software engineer responsible for the main telescope server) and of course the Wikipedia topic.
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