Credit: TMT International Observatory
The Thirty Meter Telescope is shown at a very low elevation angle. The segmented primary mirror reflects the Milky Way and convex secondary mirror. 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 right side of the image. The left and right instrument platforms are seen and the dark blue adaptive optics enclosure is seen on the upper left on the instrument support structure.
