Pre-Commissiong

Pre-Com-1 (June 26th - July 12th, 2022)

Pre-Com-2 (October 2nd - October 19th, 2022)

SHARK-NIR installation at the telescope

SHARK NIR bench: towards the telescope .. and beyond!

SciCam is going to be connected to the bench already mounted on the telescope

Pre-Com-3 (November 9th - November 24th, 2022)

SHARK-NIR operations pre on-sky

SHARKNIR deployable arm and LBTI WFS (naked)

SHARKNIR TT mirror after re-machining

Luca with the LBT operators are checking the retro-reflector source

SHARK-NIR arrived in Mount Graham:

Pre Commissioning phase

Pre-Com-1 (June 26th - July 12th, 2022)

SHARK-NIR arrived at the main bay of the LBT Observatory, then moved into the clean room, in the clean tent.

At the end of the Pre-Com-1 the instrument was parked outside the clean room.

Instrument internal alignment: checked
Instrument internal performance: checked
Phase diversity for NCPA correction performance: checked
Internal cleaning of the instrument: done

SHARK-NIR team on the mountain: Jacopo Farinato, Luca Marafatto, Maria Bergomi, Elena Carolo, Simone Di Filippo, Marco Dima, Davide Greggio, Davide Ricci, Gabriele Umbriaco, Daniele Vassallo.

Checking the movement of the internal motors of SHARK-NIR.

After re-wiring the instrument in the clean tent, the correct operation of the motorized part inside the instrument was checked.

Each filter and coronagraphic masks wheel, the motors insert the internal calibration fibers, the mirror deployer for the flat field source and the deployer of the pupil lens work correctly.