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

Astralis Team Shines with 2023 Achievements »

This year has been a significant one for the team at Astralis, marked by a series of
22.1.2024

Astralis Celebrates Key Role in Gemini North Telescope’s Adaptive Optics Bench Project »

Astralis Instrumentation Consortium (Astralis) proudly announces its pivotal role and our significant contribution to the Gemini North
13.12.2023

MAVIS Busy Week 2023: Collaboration and Discovery in Canberra »

The MAVIS team recently concluded its first Busy Week from 23 – 27 October in Canberra since
16.11.2023

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…