!NEW!
Michelle, the 8-25 micron facility imager/spectrometer for UKIRT
and Gemini, achieved its latest milestone on the 23rd August UT.
Congratulations to all in the Michelle team on reaching this stage
with essentially no deviation from the schedule set when Michelle
arrived in Hilo in June, and thanks to the JAC engineering staff
for their hard work, readying the telescope and facility and installing
the instrument.
!NEW!
Michelle successfully installed on the telescope! See pictures
from the actual procedure.
Michelle arrives at UKIRT
Michelle, a mid-infrared imager and spectrometer, left the ATC
in early June 2001 destined for the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT)
in Hawaii. It has successfully completed system test
at sea-level and has now arrived at the telescope. The
Instrument is now being cooled in preparation for mounting to UKIRT
and telescope integration in late August. Scheduled
PATT observing will start in the autumn. The Michelle instrument
was wholly designed, built and tested at the UK ATC. Funding
was provided by PPARC and
the Gemini Telscope consortium.
Details of the Instrument's capabilities can be found
at http://www.roe.ac.uk/atc/projects/michelle/michelle.html
whilst further details on the availability for observing
can be found on the UKIRT
web pages at http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JACpublic/UKIRT/applying.html
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