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Recent images from our SPIDERS pathfinder instrument demonstrating the self-coherent camera--next generation tech for direct imaging of exoplanets!
We use a special coronagraph to interfere the starlight with itself, like a classic double slit experiment... [1/3]
🔭 #Instrumentation #exoplanets
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been thinking a lot about high res UV space based spectroscopy recently for studying disks of YSOs (among other things) and it looks… like I am not the only one 😌 arxiv.org/pdf/2504.00231 #astro #instrumentation
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hello astro #instrumentation friends, i am begging y’all to put the weight, dimensions of your instruments, and power consumption of your instruments on your website somewhere (if possible 🥺) sincerely, a student struggling with finding instrument details for an assignment 😭
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Too large to be made from a single piece, the ELT's 39m mirror will consist of 798 segments.
To work together, the segments get their misalignments adjusted by edge sensors and actuators with a precision of just a couple of nanometres 🤯
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-FX...
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#instrumentation
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The incredible sensors and actuators of the world's largest telescope mirror
The primary mirror of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will consist of 798 segments working together as a single, gigantic 39-metre mirror. This video s...
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Abraham Sharp (1653-1742)
#mathematician #astronomer instrument maker
calculated #pi to 72 digits in 1699 exceeding the previous record of 39 digits in 1630
#piday #instrumentation #astrophysics #STEM 🍎
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Whoop, whoop! Progress on one of the first-generation instruments of the #ELT 👇
#instrumentation 🔭
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics@mpe-garching.bsky.social
Important milestone for #MICADO, first-light instrument of @eso.org #ELT! The De-rotator was mounted onto the support structure. The next big step will then be installing the cryostat. Learn more about ELT's Super Camera, which is built and designed under #MPE leadership: www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/micado
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The Exciting Little Timelapse of the Extremely Large Telescope.
Experience a year in the life of the biggest eye on the sky in just one minute.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRcV...
🔭🧪 #instrumentation #telescopes #elt
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Time-lapse of the construction of the world's largest telescope
YouTube video by European Southern Observatory (ESO)
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🔭 Special Session 7 at the Annual Meeting of the EAS is about "WST: the Wide-field spectroscopic facility"
eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/...
WST is planned to be a 12m telescope with 3 sq. degree FoV fully dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy!
#Astrophysics #Stars #Instrumentation
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Had a good talk about "Capella". Hooray for space-VLBI!
#CapellaVLBI
#Instrumentation
#RadioAstronomy
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Happening in Seoul right now: the KAS Space Telescope Workshop, discussing potential Korean astronomy space missions – including our space-VLBI mission "Capella".
arxiv.org/abs/2304.06482
#CapellaVLBI
#Instrumentation
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Howdy, 🦋! I’m Cappy—an art major turned physicist working on my PhD! I study solar and stellar atmospheres in VUV using data from space-based telescopes, and I build solar telescopes that launch on sounding rockets. 🚀☀️ #instrumentation #sunscience #heliophysics
When I’m not sungazing, I like to…
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Gentle reminder: there is a fully operational 4-meter telescope in India with a liquid mercury primary mirror.
🔭🧪 #instrumentation
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The 4 m International Liquid Mirror Telescope | Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences
The ILMT, located in the Devasthal Observatory campus of ARIES, results from an international collaboration between institutes from multiple countries. The telescope is designed to perform deep photometric and astrometric variability surveys to detect transients. It achieved the first light on the 29th of April 2022 and, following a series of tests and corrections, was formally inaugurated on the 21st of March 2023. The telescope is now ready for science observations.
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Already on my trip back after a short, but fantastic, experience in China. Left the hotel 9 hours ago, only 21 to get home. 🪐🔭 #instrumentation
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The meeting finished today. We saw plenty of excellent science by the Chinese and Spanish communities, and ways to keep collaborating in the future. CHORUS progresses towards a 2027-2028 first light. It has been a fantastic meeting and overall a fantastic experience.🔭🪐#instrumentation
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First morning of the workshop done already. Lots of wonderful science and facilities presented the Spanish and Chinese speakers. I was particularly impressed by the Tianlin mission, and its goal to put an ANDES-like spectrograph (R~100K-150K, 200-1700 nm) in a 6m telescope in L2 🔭🪐#instrumentation
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I made it to Zhuhai! It was just 28 hours home-to-hotel. Tomorrow we start at 9 AM. So far, our hosts are really making an effort to make things easy for us. On the bad side, connecting to Whatsapp, Bluesky, Reddit or Google services, is a headache 🔭🪐#instrumentation
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The GTC (Gran telescopio Canarias) is a 10.4m telescope located in the island of La Palma. Currently the largest optical telescope in the world. With CHORUS, the GTC could become the most powerful telescope for exoplanet science in the northern hemisphere 🔭🪐 #instrumentation
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I have now like 24 hours of travelling ahead of me, in which I have to prepare my presentations for the meeting. I'm not really looking forward to this part 😅 🔭🪐 #instrumentation
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