AAO Colloquium.


Monday 23 September 2002 - 3:30pm AAO Conference Room

The CIRPASS IR spectrograph

Robert Sharp

IoA, Cambridge University

The CIRPASS near-IR spectrograph, constructed at the IoA in Cambridge, was commissioned at the 8m Gemini South observatory in August 2002. I will give an overview of the instrument and present some preliminary results from the commisioning observations.