Australia’s National Capability for Optical Astronomy Instrumentation

As Australia’s leading astronomical instrumentation organisation, we create advanced technologies to explore and understand our universe.

About us

Astralis Instrumentation Consortium (Astralis) is a combined team of astronomy experts across three major Australian universities: Macquarie University, the Australian National University and the University of Sydney.

Together, we create world-leading astronomical instrumentation to help survey and better understand our night skies.

Latest news

Gemini North Adaptive Optics system project led by Astralis-AAO node successfully passed Preliminary Design Review »

The “Adaptive Optics Bench for Wide and Narrow fields” (AOB-WAN) project, also known as “Gemini North Adaptive

6.1.2025

AAO celebrates 50 years Bridging Eras: Reflecting on a Legacy, Envisioning a Bright Future »

The Australian Astronomical Optics (AAO) , a node (Astralis-AAO) of Astralis Instrumentation Consortium, celebrated 50 years of

6.12.2024

Astralis-AAO delivers space-qualified camera to Gilmour »

Astralis node AAO-Macquarie (Astralis-AAO) at Macquarie University has delivered its Malya thermal camera system to Queensland-based Gilmour

20.8.2024

Our Capabilities

Recent Projects

ESO MAVIS

MAVIS is a multi-conjugate adaptive optics visible imager and spectrograph for the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT). MAVIS stands for MCAO Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph. MAVIS will be the first…

GMT MANIFEST

MANIFEST is a facility multi-object fibre system for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). MANIFEST will consist of hundreds of Starbug robots that patrol the GMT field of view and feed currently planned optical spectrographs…

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