Other Current Projects

Eupraxia

The PRAXIS project was completed in 2019. It successfully demonstrated OH suppression using single-mode fibre Bragg gratings from the GNOSIS prototype coupled to the…

DREAMS

New half-meter infrared (IR) imaging survey telescope at SSO

PYXIS

Ground-based prototype to demonstrate and de-risk the concept of formation-flying space interferometry

COSMIC

A versatile, High Performance Real-Time Computing (RTC) platform for Adaptive Optics

Laser Guide Star R&D

Sodium laser guide star research-related development programs for astronomy, space situational awareness and laser communications

TOLIMAN

Precision astrometry for exoplanetary discovery in the solar neighbourhood

FOBOS for Keck

Fibre multi-object spectrograph for Keck

Sphinx for MSE

A fibre positioning system for the Manukea Spectroscopic Explorer telescope

MAAT

Integral-Field Spectroscopy module for OSIRIS on the GTC

ULTIMATE-Subaru GLAO

Ground layer adaptive optics system for the ULTIMATE instrument project on the 8-meter Subaru Telescope

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Astralis Instrumentation Consortium provides Australia’s national capability for optical astronomy instrumentation by combining expertise and resources from Macquarie University, the University of Sydney and the Australian National University.