On July 9, 2023 in Chile’s Atacama Desert, HiRISE, the new instrument of the European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured its very first light.
HiRISE combines the capabilities of two flagship instruments already installed on the telescope: the SPHERE exoplanet imager and the CRIRES+ very high-resolution spectrograph, to perform in-depth studies of exoplanets.
All our team is really proud that C-RED 2, our high speed low noise short wave infrared (SWIR) camera, is part of this new instrument.
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