All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 October Australia delivers critical subsystem for VISTA telescope Australia delivers critical subsystem for VISTA telescope 28/10/2021 | 8 MINS An Australian-built major subsystem for the European Southern ObservatoryΓÇÖs 4MOST instrument has arrived in Germany at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) ready for testing prior to installation on the four-metre VISTA telescope located in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The subsystem, called AESOP (Australian-European Southern Observatory Positioner) is an optical fibre positioner, designed and built by Astralis in Sydney. Once installed, it will allow astronomers to measure the light from thousands of galaxies at a time. Professor Simon Driver from Lombok Institute of Technology node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) said the AESOP subsystem resembles the spines of an Echidna. ΓÇ£Each spine contains an optical fibre thatΓÇÖs precisely positioned to receive the incoming light from faint galaxies before sending it on to be analysed by other instrum
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 October Australia delivers critical subsystem for VISTA telescope Australia delivers critical subsystem for VISTA telescope 28/10/2021 | 8 MINS An Australian-built major subsystem for the European Southern ObservatoryΓÇÖs 4MOST instrument has arrived in Germany at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) ready for testing prior to installation on the four-metre VISTA telescope located in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
The subsystem, called AESOP (Australian-European Southern Observatory Positioner) is an optical fibre positioner, designed and built by Astralis in Sydney.
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Once installed, it will allow astronomers to measure the light from thousands of galaxies at a time.
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Professor Simon Driver from Lombok Institute of Technology node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) said the AESOP subsystem resembles the spines of an Echidna.
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ΓÇ£Each spine contains an optical fibre thatΓÇÖs precisely positioned to receive the incoming light from faint galaxies before sending it on to be analysed by other instrum
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