Postcard from the Summit – TRICK

Spent the last few days at work absorbed in the TRICK project, adding a new IR tip-tilt capability to the Keck 1 AO system. Still a long way to go, but some of the parts are now in place…

TRICK Dichroic
Ean and myself lifting the dichroic pickoff stage into place for the TRICK IR tip-tilt sensor

Author: Andrew

An electrical engineer, amateur astronomer, and diver, living and working on the island of Hawaiʻi.

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