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CAPABILITY & EXPERIENCE
1990-present
Since its establishment in 1990, Prime Optics has provided the
Optical Design for many major new astronomical instrument developments, including:
- 2dF: the wide field corrector for the AAT and its spectrographs. This instrument
has finished a galactic red-shift survey of the southern skies and now feeds a medium-resolution
spectrograph [AAOmega].
In the next couple of years it will be reconfigured to feed a high-resolution spectrograph
[HERMES],
the design for which was conducted by this bureau.
- CASPIR:
IR instrumentation for the MSSSO. This instrument delivered most of the early [earthbound] IR pictures
of the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy with the planet Jupiter.
- AUSTRALIS: Preliminary research for the IR spectrographs for the European Southern Observatory's 8 m
telescopes.
- IRIS2: spectrograph/imager for the AAT.
- PNS: the
Planetary Nebula Spectrograph for the WHT and TNG telescopes.
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