GeminiFocus July 2019 | Page 19

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 17 GeminiFocus July 2019