Las Cumbres Observatory spectrographs acquire target robotically
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 10:31
in Astronomy & Space
Two identical FLOYDS spectrographs, installed in recent weeks at telescopes 6,000 miles apart, robotically acquired a supernovae target this week. Due to the level of precision required and the difficulty involved, few if any, other ground-based spectrographs have ever achieved this milestone.