Manufacture of New Collimator for ULTRACAM on ESO's NTT
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · Awarded contract
AwardedManufacture of New Collimator for ULTRACAM on ESO's NTT
Awarded 07 May 2017
Awarded07 May 2017
Value£60,000.00
SupplierIC Optical Systems Ltd.
AgencyUNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
RegionYorkshire and The Humber
CategoryManufacturing & Industrial
Ended 9y 6mo ago1d term
Awarded 7 May 2017Expired 8 May 2017
About
The University of Sheffield awarded a contract to IC Optical Systems Ltd.
for the manufacture of a new collimator for the ULTRACAM instrument, a high-speed, three-arm optical CCD camera used for astrophysics on fast timescales.
ULTRACAM is a visitor instrument on the European Southern Observatory's 3.5m New Technology Telescope at La Silla, Chile, and was built by a consortium including the Universities of Sheffield, Warwick, and the UK Astronomy Technology Centre, funded by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council.
The new collimator is intended to replace the current one, which is not optimised for use on the NTT.
The contract value is £60,000.
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