| | 28 | || '''22.01.2016''' || '''Ralph Hofferbert''' || '''On the way to the stars: Shipping of LINC-NIRVANA to the LBT[[BR]]'''[[BR]]As already written on our Christmas card:[[BR]]Wintry mood prevailed in November 2015 on top of Mount Graham, Arizona, at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT): after more than ten years of planning, manufacturing and testing, LINC-NIRVANA found its ultimate mounting pad between the two primary mirrors of the LBT for the first time. The near infrared imaging instrument shall combine – depending on the implementation phase – adaptive optics and interferometric beam combination of the two mirrors to achieve ultra high spatial resolution. [[BR]][[BR]]Beforehand, the instrument had been disassembled und made a 6-week-trip over the Atlantic as one oversize transport plus nine sea containers. In the months to come the delicate optical components and the cryogenic near-infrared camera will be re-integrated, such that LINC-NIRVANA and the telescope get finally married from mid of 2016 on.[[BR]][[BR]]Presentation: German [[BR]][https://svn.mpia.de/trac/gulli/att/raw-attachment/wiki/AlteVortraege2016S1/2015-09-18_Wie_gross.pdf Slides: German][[BR]]Questions: German, English || |
