Category Archives: Project Development

HPF Commissioning: A New Standard in the Near Infrared

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Paul M Robertson

We’ve been quiet… Our last post, made about a year ago, shared our excitement at having delivered HPF to its permanent home on HET, and recording the instrument’s first data.  Since then, we have been busy doing the hard work … Continue reading →

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HPF Goes On Sky!

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Paul M Robertson

Introduction Things have been quiet here on the HPF blog for the last few months, but that has certainly not been the case in our lab!  Our team has been working diligently, making the final push to deliver HPF to … Continue reading →

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The Camera of HPF

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Samuel Peter Halverson

Introduction: Spectrometer Cameras A spectrometer, as the name implies, records a ‘spectrum’ of an object. This spectrum, in its most basic form, is just a series of images of the instrument entrance aperture (whether it be a star, slit, optical … Continue reading →

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