A 3D rendering of the Thirty Meter Telescope showing the telescope pointing vertically inside its enclosure. The full telescope structure is visible, with a 30 meter diameter segmented primary (M1), an active secondary (M2) and an articulated tertiary mirror (M3). Science instruments are mounted on the two large diagonally opposed Nasmyth platforms surrounding the telescope. Another platform supporting the M1 segment handling system is also shown, as well as the vertical servicing platform to access M2 and M3. This rendering shows excellently how the structure of the telescope has been compactly designed to fit within its minimal size enclosure.
A 3D rendering of the Thirty Meter Telescope showing the telescope pointing vertically inside its enclosure. The full telescope structure is visible, with a 30 meter diameter segmented primary (M1), an active secondary (M2) and an articulated tertiary mirror (M3). Science instruments are mounted on the two large diagonally opposed Nasmyth platforms surrounding the telescope. Another platform supporting the M1 segment handling system is also shown, as well as the vertical servicing platform to access M2 and M3. This rendering shows excellently how the structure of the telescope has been compactly designed to fit within its minimal size enclosure.
Construction of the Center for Research and Education in Science and Technology (CREST) on the outskirts of Bangalore, India.
The Review participants stand in front of CIOMP’s four-meter mirror polishing and metrology center; one of two polishing and metrology centers where the final M3 mirror could be polished. From left to right: Qi Erhui, Hu Haixiang, Zhang Lingtong, Glen Cole, Tim Campbell, Hu Haifei, Liu Zhenyu, Eric Hansen, Luo Xiao, Virginia Ford, Byron Smith, Zhang Xuejun, Scott Shankle, Fengchuan Liu, Yang Fei, Xue Suijian, Shen Zhixia and Zhang Liaming.
Complete prototype assembly with an aluminum dummy mirror, instrumented with accelerometers for vibration testing.
TMT Associate Project Manager Ravinder Bhatia
Interactive discussions on TMT Common Software implementation
The whole team in front of ThoughtWorks Office in Pune, India.
Opto-mechanical design of the IRIS Integral Field Spectrograph subsystem, shown with the slicer and the lenslet components.
Mechanical model image (left) and optical model image (right) of the IRIS Imager sub-system.
Three color (J, H and K bands) simulated images of Pluto and its moon Charon as IRIS would see this binary Kuiper-belt system.
IRIS simulated near-infrared images of Jupiter's moon, Io (center) compared to real images obtained with the Keck telescope (left) and Galileo spacecraft (right).
