Nick Konidaris

Month: July 2014

  • Chimera 2 first light

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    Chimera 2, a new high-speed and wide-field imager for Palomar achieved first light! Gregg Hallinan is the PI, I’m proud to have performed the lens-design for this instrument, all optics are off-the-shelf, so the real challenge was the imaginative way in which the off-the-shelf optics were combined. An example Chimera 2 first light image is…

  • TMT Science Forum

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    I’m attending the TMT Science forum in Tucson next week! This will be a great opportunity to talk about my work on TMT! Follow us on #tmtsf14. IRMS I gave a presentation on the observational capability and technical aspects of IRMS.