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Sky. Mapper

Sky. Mapper Who is Sky. Mapper? Slide 2

Sky. Mapper It’s a long way to the top of S S O 1 Jan 2003 - Our ARC DP grant starts. Slide 3

Sky. Mapper My own picture from 20 th January 2003 Slide 4

Sky. Mapper 8 April 2003. . . Bushfire report to ARC • 5. Supervise construction of a wide field (approx 7 sq 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. Slide 5

Sky. Mapper • Aug 2004 • Contract let for 1. 35 m Sky. Mappe r Telescope to EOS. Slide 6

Sky. Mapper 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. . . Slide 7

Sky. Mapper 2006 - Russian Deliver more or less on time Slide 8

Sky. Mapper Secondary from SAGEM 2006 - on time Slide 9

Sky. Mapper • The whole thing put together mid 2007, in Tucson Slide 10

Sky. Mapper • First light, Tucson, • July 2007 Slide 11

Sky. Mapper • Bonn-Shutter - 2006 - arrives on time Slide 12

Sky. Mapper 2006 - Focal Plane Dewar assembled Slide 13

Sky. Mapper Slide 14

Sky. Mapper $40, 000 of filter glass from Russia. . . Complete with Cheese & Pepperoni Slide 15

Sky. Mapper $2. 5 M of CCDs from E 2 V - arrive in 2006, on time Slide 16

Sky. Mapper Dome - 2007 Slide 17

Sky. Mapper July 2008 Slide 18

Sky. Mapper Telescope to SSO Sep 2008 Slide 19

Sky. Mapper Telescope to SSO Sep 2008 Slide 20

Sky. Mapper Telescope to SSO Sep 2008 Slide 21

Sky. Mapper Telescope to SSO Sep 2008 Slide 22

Sky. Mapper This week. . Slide 23

Sky. Mapper 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. Slide 24

Sky. Mapper Focal Plane Array: Focal Plane Array nearing completion. Low noise, fast readout demonstrated for 2 chips (14 s, 4 e-) 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 Slide 25

Sky. Mapper 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. Slide 26