Instruments designed with adaptive optics incorporated in the overall system.Instrumentation for Extremely Large Telescopes.Ground-based instrumentation in support of space missions.Rapid-response instruments (gravitational wave follow-up, supernovae, Υ-ray bursts).Design/prototyping of instrumentation for current observatories (incl.Performance and results from recently commissioned instruments.The aims for the conference are to provide: i) overviews of the performance and lessons learned from instruments in operation ii) discussion of proposed instruments and those already in development iii) a forum to exchange technical information on both the achievements and problems among instrument builders, from across both academic and industrial partners.
BLUEPRINTS PLANETARIUM DESIGN 360 SERIES
Building on past successful conferences in this series on ground-based and airborne instrumentation, we invite both oral and poster papers on the design, development, characterization, upgrades and performance of optical and infrared instruments. Alongside these, there are significant new developments underway at solar observatories, on airborne platforms, and at smaller facilities, with the latter spurred on by the growth of rapid-response instruments and multimessenger astronomy.
These include the advanced designs of instruments for the ‘Extremely Large Telescopes’ now under construction, and new innovations to maximise the capabilities and parameter space covered by the now mature 8-10m class telescopes.
Amid the challenges of the past two years, work has continued apace on a broad range of exciting new instrumentation for ground-based observatories.