Spectrographic Areal Unit for Research on Optical Nebulae (SAURON)

First light: February 1999.

De-commissioned:  5 April 2014.

Designed and built by: CRA Lyon, Leiden University, Durham University.

Description: Sauron is an integral field spectrograph using a lenslet array. 

Some Scientific Highlights:

• The Discovery of a Galaxy-Wide Superwind from a Young Massive Galaxy at Redshift z~3
• The SAURON Project