Credit: TMT International Observatory
Stylized view of the Thirty Meter Telescope from above with the telescope tube structure suppressed to highlight instruments and the segment handling system. The two instrument platforms are shown on either side of the primary mirror. On the left side is the adaptive optics enclosure in blue and light gray supporting the hexagonal shaped MODHIS First Light instrument on top (also in blue). The charcoal colored structure immediately adjacent to 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. At the top of the image 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).
