Murphy, SimonKeller, StefanSchmidt, BrianTisserand, PatrickBessell, MikeFrancis, PaulDa Costa, GarySoonthornthum, B.Komonjinda, S.Cheng, K.S.Leung, K.C.2022-12-02May 5-9 209781583816851http://hdl.handle.net/1885/281484The Australian National University’s SkyMapper telescope is amongst the first of a new generation of dedicated wide-field survey telescopes. Featuring a 5.7 deg2 field-of-view Cassegrain imager and 268 Mega-pixel CCD array, its primary goal will be to undertake the Southern Sky Survey: a six colour (uvgriz), six-epoch digital record of the entire southern sky. The survey will provide photometry for objects between 8th and 23rd magnitude with a global photometric accuracy of 0.03 magnitudes and astrometry to 50 mas. In this contribution we introduce the SkyMapper facility, the survey data products and outline a variety of case-studies in stellar astrophysics for which SkyMapper will have high impact.application/pdfen-AU© 2009 B. Soonthornthum, S. Komonjinda, K. S. Cheng, and K.-C. Leung, eds.SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: A Valuable Resource for Stellar Astrophysics20092021-11-28