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The first issue of the LBTO Users’ Gazette is out!
The September 2016 issue of The LBTO Users’ Gazette is now available. You will find it here. This is the first issue of the Gazette,
LINC-NIRVANA settles in its new home at LBT
LINC-NIRVANA ready to leave the clean room LINC-NIRVANA (LN) is a near infrared imaging instrument for the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) designed to offer both
DDO 68: Among Galaxies, a Flea, but a Voracious One
Even a dwarf galaxy with very low mass is capable of accreting smaller nearby galaxies, according to an international team of astronomers led by Francesca
First AO light on LUCI1
Exciting times for LUCI1! After receiving its first light corrected by the Ground Layer Adaptive Optics ARGOS system (see our previous post), LUCI1 was again
First spectroscopic observations with ARGOS and LUCI1
Two posts were already published on ARGOS in this blog, the first one at the end of 2013 (where you will find more information on the ARGOS
MODS1+2 first binocular light
At LBTO, first-generation instruments are deployed in pairs. The Multi-Object Double Spectrograph for the Large Binocular Telescope (MODS1 and MODS2) pair is the second one
LINC-NIRVANA is introduced to its new home.
LINC-NIRVANA (LN) is a near infrared imaging instrument for the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) designed to offer both multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) and interferometric beam
In 2015B, LUCI1 out and LUCI2 in!
LUCI2 on its way to its right bent Cassegrain focal station After slightly more than 5 years of operation, LUCI1, the first in the pair
LINC-NIRVANA Lean-MCAO successfully passed its Preliminary Acceptance in Europe
LINC-NIRVANA (LN) is a near infrared imaging instrument for the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) designed to offer both multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) and interferometric beam
LBT takes a close look at a lava lake on Jupiter’s moon Io
With the first detailed observations through imaging interferometry of a lava lake on a moon of Jupiter, the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory places itself as
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