Colloquium
Status of the Extremely Large Telescope
Abstract
The ESO Extremely Large Telescope project is in the final stages of AIV. The bulk of the telescope and dome are erected on site and almost half the primary mirror segments are already in Chile. The rest of the optics are well advanced as are the wavefront sensing capabilities. The talk will present the current status of the hardware and software systems and discuss the issues arising from thinking about, designing, and building the telescope.
About the talk
Telescope scientist for ESO’s ELT
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About the speaker
Jason Spyromilio is a senior astronomer at the European Southern Observatory whose research focuses on supernovae and cosmology, and he was a member of the High-Z Supernova Team that discovered the accelerating expansion of the Universe. He is currently the telescope scientist for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Over his career he has also held key leadership roles in major observatories, including directing the La Silla–Paranal Observatory.