The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project is a survey for new transiting planets around bright stars. KELT-South is a small-aperture, wide-field automated telescope located at Sutherland, South Africa. The telescope surveys a set of 26 degree by 26 degree fields around the southern sky, and targets stars in the range of 8 < V < 10 mag, searching for transits by Hot Jupiters. This paper describes the KELT-South system hardware and software and discusses the quality of the observations. We show that KELT-South is able to achieve the necessary photometric precision to detect transits of Hot Jupiters around solar-type main-sequence stars.
@article{arxiv.1202.1826,
title = {The KELT-South Telescope},
author = {Joshua Pepper and Rudolf B. Kuhn and Robert Siverd and David James and Keivan Stassun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.1826},
year = {2015}
}