Credit: TMT International Observatory
Stylized view of the Thirty Meter Telescope with the telescope tube structure suppressed to highlight instruments and the segment handling system. On the far side of the segmented primary mirror is the adaptive optics enclosure in blue that supports the MODHIS First Light instrument on top (also in blue, inside the safety rails). The charcoal colored structure immediately to the left of 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 light gray structure located on the instrument platform on the right foreground of the image. At the rear right is the part of the mirror segment handling system that transfers segments up and down to the observatory floor and on and off the segment handling system above the primary mirror (not shown).
