SPIE

In the summer of 2006, Orland, Florida hosted the international SPIE symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation - the largest gathering of its kind in the observable universe.

The UK ATC's own Colin Cunningham was a Symposium Chair at this event.

A number of papers were presented on the VISTA Project.

Links to the .pdf versions of these are shown below.

Paper 1 (26 KB) - A review of its progress and overview of the current programme

Paper 2 (1.43 MB) - VISTA Telescope Mount - factory testing prior to optics integration

Click on the link to take you to the SPIE's official site.