2nd BINA Workshop

10 years of HERMES at the 1.2-m Mercator telescope

9 Oct 2018, 15:10

40m

Meridian Room (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

Invited Review 1. Instrumentation of the Indo-Belgian telescopes 1. Instrumentation of the Indo-Belgian Telescopes

Speaker

Prof. Hans Van Winckel (KU Leuven)

Description

In this contribution I will review our approach to exploiting a small but flexible 1.2-m Mercator telescope. Its specific niche in observational astrophysics needs both a instrument development programme, a continuous technical development programme and an optimised operational model. I will review the 'lessons learned' from our exploitation of the high-resolution HERMES spectrograph mounted on the telescope in 2009.

Presentation materials

Pictures

18bina_Picture_DSC0012_IR05.jpg

Slides

18bina_Presentation_IR05_VanWinckel.pdf