First guide star laser delivered for ESO’s ELT
Executing a contract signed in late 2017, TOPTICA Projects GmbH delivers the first guide star laser system for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) that is being built by with the […]
Category: Installations
SodiumStar for the GTC
We are very excited for the first SodiumStar to go to an observatory located in Europe. The Gran Telescopio Canarias (also GRANTECAN or GTC) is a 10.4-m telescope at the […]
SodiumStars as Maunakea spare and for KAPA at Keck I
2019 saw two more SodiumStars going to Maunakea, one as a common spare for Keck, Gemini and Subaru Observatories and another one for the upcoming KAPA system at Keck I […]
SodiumStar for the Subaru Telescope
Trips to Hawaii do not get boring, so we were thrilled to be back for another laser installation, this time at the Japanese Subaru telescope. The name Subaru is Japanese […]
SodiumStar for the Gemini North Telescope
Shortly after the sister telescope in Chile, also the Gemini telescope in the northern hemisphere got their (first) TOPTICA SodiumStar. Led by Jeff, who had attended the installation in Chile, […]
SodiumStar for the Gemini South Telescope
The Gemini South telescope has been well known for its innovative adaptive optics system GeMS, which, since 2011, has been the first Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system using multiple laser […]
4LGSF First Light Event at VLT
On 26 April 2016 ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile hosted an event to mark the first light for the four SodiumStar laser systems that form a crucial part of the […]
Four SodiumStars for Paranal
In 2013 through 2016, we installed four SodiumStar 20/2 systems first at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) headquarters in Garching and later at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) facility operated […]
Two SodiumStars for Starfire Optical Range
To our great delight, among the first customers of the SodiumStar 20/2 was Starfire Optical Range (SOR), an institution of the US Air Force, based at Kirtland Air Force Base […]
SodiumStar for the Keck II Telescope
Together with ESO, the W. M. Keck Observatory was involved in the development of the SodiumStar 20/2, providing additional specifications. Thus, in parallel to the deliveries to ESO, already in […]
