SSO Update

Published in the RSAA Lunations
Vol1 Issue45 1–31 October 2023

Never a dull moment

In the week leading up to Open Day, it has been a very busy period at SSO.  The week was bookmarked by a visit by Julia Bryant from the University of Sydney who came up to replace a broken part in the Hector Robot, and by Summer Luo, who will arrive from Macquarie University tomorrow transporting a motor to replace the one that failed in the CURE adaptor one week ago. In the meantime, the calibration slide the motor controlled is being positioned by hand.

In the days between, we had Ian Adams service cryo-heads at SkyMapper, Vlad Churilov from MQ fixing the leak in the blue cryostat of AAOmega, Ross Zhelem from MQ taking some technical data for MAVIS, and Kristin Fiegert, Dionne Haynes and Tom Woodrow repairing 2dF fibres. You might ask why do we do this? Here’s a link to an article that explains why.

Chris Lidman, on behalf aof the SSO team

_{Picture: From left to right, Dionne Haynes, Kristin Fiegert and Tom Woodrow standing behind 2dF and all smiling after a successful week repairing 2dF fibres.}