AAS247 Conference Wrap up
This year the American Astronomical Society Winter Meeting was in Phoenix and several of us made the short drive from Tucson to share some exciting research ...
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2025
SPIE O+P 2025 Conference Proceedings Wrap up
The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 6. demonstration of Lyot low order wavefront control combined with high order wavefront control using a vortex c...
AO Summer School 2025
AO Summer School 2025 Editor’s Note: Marcus’ post below describes this year’s CfAO Summer School at UCSC. for more banana slug content see our sibling CAAO M...
Integrating Sphere Build Process
Author: Nikoli Cooper, UA undergraduate TIMESTEP Apprentice. Commercial Integrating Spheres on the market are high quality, yet expensive. A 6” diameter can...
2024
SPIE Summer 2024 Conference Proceedings Wrap up
This past summer team members presented research at both the Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation Conference in Yokohama and Optics+Photonics in San Die...
Introducing Dr. Ashcraft
Hey folks! This is Postdoc Justin, here to announce a recent milestone achieved by one of the members of our team!
Sensor Characterization Reports
In order to assess the suitability of CMOS sensors for astronomical applications we have been testing a range of commercially available sensors and camera pa...
2023
SPIE Optics+Photonics 2023 Conference Proceedings Wrap up
Recently we published a series of conference proceedings from the SPIE Optics+Photonics meeting which explore potential approaches to lowering the cost of la...
Test Post
Test of the non-emergency blogging system