Credit: TMT International Observatory
The Thirty Meter Telescope is shown at an elevation angle of about 45 degrees. The segmented primary mirror reflects some of the telescope’s upper tube structure. The two instrument platforms are seen and the dark blue adaptive optics enclosure is seen in the foreground atop the instrument support structure. Attached to top of the adaptive optics system is the MODHIS instrument on top, shown in dark blue. The charcoal colored structure immediately alongside the adaptive optics system is the telescope optics alignment and phasing system (APS). The tertiary mirror in the center of the primary mirror is oriented to send light to the Wide Field Optical Spectrograph, the gray structure located on the instrument platform to the rear of the image.
