Taipan is a new survey of galaxies starting in late 2017 that will be carried out on the 1.2-metre UK Schmidt Telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory. It is the most ambitious spectroscopic survey of the southern sky to date, continuing a long tradition of extensive spectroscopic surveys carried out in Australia.
Read the blog post from Elisabete Lima da Cunha
Read the article here The Taipan Galaxy Survey: Scientific Goals and Observing Strategy