KAIT with PI Alex Filippenko showing relative sizes

Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope, KAIT, recently completed and dedicated at Lick Observatory. This new telescope is programmed to search the sky robotically every night to find new supernovae.

Left photo: UCB Professor Alex Filippenko, principle investigator for the KAIT, poses with the new telescope.

Right photo: KAIT in action inside its dome, as dusk falls on Mt. Hamilton.

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