THALES SESO has designed and manufactured the Collimator Assembly for the OSIRIS instrument delivered to the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC-Tenerife).
This equipment is installed at the focal plane of the GRANTECAN telescope.
Thanks to a fast and accurate tilting mirror, it is mainly used...
Thales Seso was awarded the contract for the optical polishing and control of the “first light” secondary mirror of the LBT (Φ980mm) The unit was produced and delivered to the LBT project though a contract placed by the Ohio State University.
In order...
Thales Seso has manufactured (grinding, polishing and coating) the secondary mirror of the Magdalena Ridge Observatory (MRO). This is a challenging highly off axis convex aspherical mirror.
The main characteristics and specifications of this mirror are:• Substrate: Lightened ULE structure with Corning fusion process • Size :...
Under a contract issue by the UATC, Thales Seso has designed and manufactured the Secondary and Tertiary mirrors as well as the large Filed lens of the Wide Field Camera (WFCAM) installed onto the UK infrared Telescope (UK-IRT) located in Hawaii.
The technical...
