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This talk will introduce the Antarctic Telescope projects that NIAOT has updated and upgraded since 2019, which mainly include Antarctic Survey Telescopes , Kunlun Infrared telescope, Zhongshan Multi-band survey telescopes, etc. AST3-2 has restarted observation since January 2024 which was unmaintained for nearly five years from 2019 due to Covid-19 and some other reasons. AST3-3, which is designed for near-infrared astronomy in Antarctica, is expected to start domestic commissiong at K-band in the northern winter in 2025. Kunlun Near-Infrared telescope with aperture of 15cm and band of 1.1-1.4μm was installed in January 2024. It has measured near-infrared sky light background brightness of the entire sky at Dome A. Besides the telescopes at Kunlun station mentioned above, a number of some telescopes has been deployed at Chinese Zhongshan station in Antarctica, which will be provided some details in this talk.
