Gemini staff contributions
On the Horizon
Figure 1.
National Research
Council Canada team
members John Pazder,
Andre Anthony, and Scott
Macdonald (from left to
right) fit check GHOST’s
red camera optics onto
the focus stage.
Credit: David Henderson
The GHOST team brings together, for the first time, the
instrument’s fiber system, Slit Viewer Assembly, and
spectrograph. Highlights from the SCORPIO project as it
closes out its Design Phase and moves toward its Build Phase.
GHOST Project Achieves Major Milestone
During the first two weeks of July, the
combined Australian and Canadian
GHOST teams worked together to reach
a major milestone in Victoria, British
Columbia: the integration of subassem-
blies created by each organization for
Gemini’s High-resolution Optical Spec-
Trograph (Figure 1). The Australian As-
tronomical Optics Macquarie University
team brought with them the Slit Viewer
Assembly with electronics, as well as the
Optical Fiber Cable to be connected to
and tested with the Spectrograph, which
the National Research Council Canada
team had recently assembled. A spec-
trum captured with this instrument is
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