Category: Optomechanical Technologies

/*! elementor – v3.11.4 – 12-03-2023 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=”.svg”]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} About Project Hector is a multi-hexabundle integral-field-unit fibre system and spectrograph delivered to the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) in 2022. It incorporates a new positioning system using the 2df corrector. This instrument concept builds on the success of the…

/*! elementor – v3.11.2 – 22-02-2023 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=”.svg”]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} Artist’s concept of the completed Giant Magellan Telescope (Credit: GMTO) About Project MANIFEST is a facility multi-object fibre positioning system for the Giant Magellan Telescope. MANIFEST will consist of hundreds of high precision robots (called “Starbugs”) that patrol…

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The DIRAC project tasks the AAO with designing and manufacturing an infra-red diffraction-limited camera for the Eastern Anatolia Observatory in Turkey. It will be mounted on the Nasmyth platform of the 4 metre DAG telescope. The DIRAC imager can support a broad range of scientific interests needing high-definition near-infrared imaging:…

/*! elementor – v3.11.2 – 22-02-2023 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=”.svg”]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} About Project The Gemini High-Resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST) instrument now in the final stages of commissioning has been developed for the Gemini telescope, in a collaboration between the AAO, the Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics in Canada, and the…

AESOP is the fibre positioner unit for the 4MOST instrument for the 4-metre European Southern Observatories VISTA telescope in Chile. AESOP is the fibre positioner unit for the 4MOST instrument for the ESO VISTA telescope The 4MOST project, led by the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (Germany), involves a number of European…