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May 31, 2018Jun 4, 2018 vltmoons Hardware

Collimator mirror structure

Some of largest parts of MOONS so far have just arrived in Edinburgh from Italy! Thanks Arcetri! In the box lie the support structures for the collimator mirrors, one for each of the spectrographs. Each support structure alone weighs 70kg, and another 70kg for the mirrors themselves. We don't yet have the mirrors, although one … Continue reading Collimator mirror structure