Major Current Projects

AESOP
AESOP is the fibre positioner unit for the 4MOST instrument for the 4-metre European Southern Observatories (ESO) VISTA telescope in Chile. The 4MOST project,…
ESO Software Pipeline
In this project, Astralis collaborating with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on the development and maintenance of pipeline data reduction software for a number…
DIRAC
The DIRAC project tasks Astralis with designing and manufacturing an infrared diffraction-limited camera for the Eastern Anatolia Observatory in Turkey. DIRAC will be mounted…
BlueMUSE
BlueMUSE is a proposed blue-optimised, medium spectral resolution, integral field spectrograph for the Very Large Telescope (VLT). It is based around the MUSE instrument…
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…
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…
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…