News

Welcome to our news site!

One of our main objectives is to keep information between us flowing, we want to provide a way of facilitating that. As you can see, it is currently still rather empty, but we would like this to change. This website got launched from the Makidon Optics Laboratory at STScI and we have a blog where we regularly (~1x per month) publish a short article about the most recent changes, updates and news. We included the blog as an RSS feed here and an easy way to get more groups involved is to do something similar.

We understand though that not everybody wants to maintain a blog, so we implemented an easy submission form for individual articles. Further ideas include automatically pulling relevant papers from arXiv (possibly over key words) and including a twitter feed for contributions people make on social media.

To submit a new article or job offer, please fill out this form.

Exciting news from the SCExAO instrument

Sébastien Vievard, Subaru telescope, August 16th 2018

The Subaru Coronographic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument is a versatile high contrast instrument installed on the Subaru telescope in Hawaii (See Fig.1 below). SCExAO benefits from a first stage of wavefront correction with the facility adaptive optics AO188... Continue reading

The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer Awakens

Nemanja Jovanovic, Caltech, July 31st 2018

The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) (PI, Dimitri Mawet) is amongst the first instruments to be built with the primary goal of enabling high dispersion coronagraphy (HDC). HDC is based on suppressing the light of the host with a high performance coronagraph... Continue reading