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AAO Leads the Gemini North Adaptive Optics Bench Project

By dliu
18 December 2023
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The Australian Astronomical Optics (AAO) led an international consortium which won a A$15 million international contract to lead the design and construction of adaptive optics for the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, one of the world’s largest and most advanced optical telescopes. The Adaptive Optics Bench (AOB) project is led…

AAO participated in the 16th Australian Space Forum 2023

By dliu
11 December 2023
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The Australian Astronomical Optics (AAO) – Macquarie proudly participated in the 16th Australian Space Forum hosted by the Andy Thomas Space Foundation on 6th December 2023. Building on a legacy of nearly 50 years in designing and building precision telescope technology, AAO is now extending its expertise into the realm…

AAO technology is going to the Moon

By dliu
30 June 2023
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Australian Astronomical Optics – Macquarie (AAO) at Macquarie University will build a new optical multi-beam laser collimator that will land on the moon as a part of an Advanced Navigation project that has been awarded a $5.2M Moon to Mars Initiative: Demonstrator Mission Grant by the Australian Space Agency. “We…

GHOST spectrograph delivered to US observatory

GHOST Instrument Commissioned at Gemini South Observatory The GHOST instrument been successfully commissioned on the Gemini South Telescope, one of the world’s most powerful optical telescopes. Gemini South in Chile is one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab. The AAO is the prime contractor for GHOST…

AAO to build thermal imager for Gilmour space

By RDS Admin
15 January 2023
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AAO to build thermal imager for Gilmour Space AAO has announced a new partnership with Gilmour Space Technologies, to design and build a new sovereign space technology for launch in late 2023. AAO is world renowned for its ground-based precision instrumentation for telescopes and is now branching out to non-astronomy…

AAO delivers Fibre Positioners to Germany

Designed and built by AAO, the AESOP (Australian-European Southern Observatory Positioner) arrived in Potsdam, Germany in late 2021. AESOP is an optical fibre positioner unit for the 4MOST instrument currently under construction for the 4-metre diameter VISTA telescope in Chile, which is operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The…