The problems of mounting big instruments on big telescopes and the ELT instrumentation programme

Authors
Dr.
Peter Hammersley
Date and time
24 May 2019 - 11:30 Europe/London
Address

Aula

Talk language
English
Slides language
English
Serie number
1
Description

This talk looks at the challenges in developing instruments for extremely large telescopes.  It then discusses the impact of these on the ELT first light instruments and their current status.   The instruments are HARMONI, a visible - Near IR integral filed unit; MOARY/MICADO a multi-conjugate AO system and camera and METIS  a thermal IR spectrometer and camera.