AAT and 2dF/AAOmega photo gallery
Photograph Credits to: Barnaby Norris
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The AAT at Siding Springs Observatory.
The UK Schmidt telescope and Faulkes telescope can be seen in the distance to the left of the image. |
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The AAT dome |
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The AAT Dome at night |
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The Anglo-Australian Telescope The 2dF robotic fibre positioner which feeds the AAOmega spectrograph is mounted at the prime focus on top of the telescope. |
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The 2dF robotic fibre positioner. The 3.9m diameter primary mirror is seen uncovered in the background. |
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The AAT from above |
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The 2dF robotic fibre positioner The metal field plate is seen populated with fibre buttons which are used to relay the light from astronomical targets down to the AAOmega spectrograph. The robot gripper is seen hovering over a button which it is about to move to a new target position. |
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The 2dF gripper picking up a fibre optic button |
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The AAOmega spectrograph The two metal vessels are dewers, giant vacuum flasks which contain the liquid nitrogen used to cool the CCD cameras down to their working temperatures of -115C. The spectrograph has two cameras, a red one and a blue one. Each is sensitive to particular wavelengths of light. |
Sarah Brough sb@aao.gov.au