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SkyMapper

SkyMapper. Who is SkyMapper?. It’s a long way to the top of S S O. 1 Jan 2003 - Our ARC DP grant starts. My own picture from 20th January 2003. 5. Supervise construction of a wide field (approx 7sq degree field of view) 1.8 meter telescope at Siding Spring Observatory. (New Goal)

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SkyMapper

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  1. SkyMapper

  2. Who is SkyMapper?

  3. It’s a long way to the topof S S O 1 Jan 2003 - Our ARC DP grant starts.

  4. My own picture from 20th January 2003

  5. 5. Supervise construction of a wide field (approx 7sq degree field of view) 1.8 meter telescope at Siding Spring Observatory. (New Goal) 6. Supervise construction of a >100 million pixel CCD array for the Siding Spring Survey Telescope. (New Goal) 7. Start taking data for the Southern Sky survey using the new Survey Telescope. 8 April 2003... Bushfire report to ARC

  6. Aug 2004 Contract let for 1.35m SkyMapper Telescope to EOS.

  7. The Mirror Crack’d - 2005 The sequel The Mirror Crack’d Part III The Mirror Crack’d - The Final Chapter Dr. Zhivago to the rescue...

  8. 2006 - Russian Deliver more or less on time

  9. Secondary from SAGEM - 2006 - on time

  10. The whole thing put together mid 2007, in Tucson

  11. First light, Tucson, July 2007

  12. Bonn-Shutter - 2006 - arrives on time

  13. 2006 - Focal Plane Dewar assembled

  14. $40,000 of filter glass from Russia...Complete with with Cheese & Pepperoni

  15. $2.5M of CCDs from E2V - arrive in 2006, on time

  16. Dome - 2007

  17. July 2008

  18. Telescope to SSO Sep 2008

  19. Telescope to SSO Sep 2008

  20. Telescope to SSO Sep 2008

  21. Telescope to SSO Sep 2008

  22. This week..

  23. Telescope: Site (Final) acceptance tests of Dome happening now. Annino on his way up to site. Site (Final) acceptance test of Telescope ~19 December. As of October Telescope meets performance specs at Focal plane centre. Some primary support issues that are being addressed right now before handover. Should be tested off axis before hand-over. Test of full field of view performance awaits our the Focal Plane Array.

  24. Focal Plane Array: Focal Plane Array nearing completion. Low noise, fast readout demonstrated for 2 chips (14s, 4e-) Problems exist in reading out more than 2 chips. To read out more than 16 chips Waiting for new boards from UH (due anytime) Waiting for power supplies (6-8 weeks) Filters u,r,z completed... v,g about to be be assembled i awaits final coatings

  25. Commissioning (?): Will deploy with a working 16-chip system to be upgraded at site. We will not deploy a dodgy system. Could be Feb, but not earlier. Alignment Preliminary Science demonstration (Will call for targets once we know when, and the state of the system) Regular Operations as soon as possible afterwards.

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