GHOST Cassegrain Unit Delivered (and more…)

Delivery and testing of the Cassegrain Unit began in mid-January, while work progressed on the spectrograph at the NRC-Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (NRC-Herzberg) in Victoria, Canada. A pair of trucks delivered the Cassegrain Unit to the Cerro Pachón summit which was received by the Gemini and Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) teams who unpacked and assembled the unit.

Meanwhile, in the northern hemisphere, Manuel Lazo, Gemini GHOST project engineer spent nearly two weeks working with the NRC-Herzberg spectrograph team. Other ongoing work includes detector testing, and the arrival of the red camera field lens and all of the blue camera optics at the NRC-Herzberg.

The GHOST team is looking forward to the next on-sky opportunities, integration of the internal Gemini software, and the spectrograph’s arrival from the NRC-Herzberg. 

This is just the beginning!