The mirror blank was stored in a 20 feet container by NYK line, one of Japan’s biggest shipping companies, and transported by sea from Tokyo to Chennai via Singapore. The mirror blank arrived at the Centre for Research and Education in Science and Technology (CREST) on December 1, 2017.
Cross sectional view of TMT enclosure revealing the observatory structure and components.
SolidWorks screen grabs highlighting various angles of the IRIS science cryostat. The cryostat is 1.9 meters in diameter and 2.9 meters tall.
Cross sectional view of IRIS revealing the NAOJ designed Imager (shown in brown) and the UC/Caltech/NIAOT two-channel Integral Field Spectrograph (shown in green in the lower portion of the figure).
Meeting of the IRIS team in Pasadena, CA in Sept 2017 to finalize the preliminary design review phase of the infrared imaging spectrograph (IRIS), which is one of TMT's first light instruments
The metrology device used in the polishing process of Roundel production - Two Dimensional Profilometer (2DP) owned and operated by Coherent Inc - is shown above in a special-use case where it is validating the active warping of the Polished Mirror Assembly (PMA).
Image of TMT type 82 prototype roundel, successfully polished at Coherent Inc. using the SMP process. It is the most aspheric mirror element of TMT’s primary mirror array.
Representatives from TMT’s Wide-Field Optical Spectrograph (WFOS) team, including Maureen Savage, Matthew Radovan, and Zheng Cai, members of TMT-China office, and representatives from National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) and its affiliate, Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology (NIAOT); Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO); Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP); Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC); Shanghai Jiao Tong University (STJU); Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST); and Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT).
TMT engineers in the Monrovia laboratory close to TMT’s headquarters in California, after the installation of the first TMT Primary Segment Assembly (PSA) in the Multi-Segment Integration and Test Facility (MSIT). From left to right: Fred Kamphues, Chris Carter, Bryan Smith and Alan Tubb.
