Conveners
Metrology and alignment challenges
- Hermann Schmickler (CERN)
The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is a 39m diameter optical/infrared telescope to be located on Cerro Armazones about 25 km away from the current ESO VLT Observatory at Cerro Paranal, Chile. After initial conceptual studies and a formal approval of the Programme by ESO Council back in 2012, the actual start of construction was actually authorised in 2014 when the required funding...
In 2012 a consortium of parties interested in Large Volume Metrology was formed to submit a Potential Research Topic into the European Metrology Research Programme. The topic was subsequently selected for the second stage of the call process and a project consortium consisting of 5 National Metrology Institutes, 3 Universities and 3 unfunded industrial partners was formed to bid into the call....