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Latest News from OIR
- P1640 sees first light with Palomar AO (July 8, 2008)
- COO awarded $45K for Antarctic
- New seeing-limited instrument studies for Keck approved (May 12, 2008)
- COO and JPL awarded $160K to study Non-linear Detector Effects in Weak Gravitational Lensing (February 14, 2008)
Older News Items
- Palomar Adaptive Optics + Lucky Cam named one of TIME magazine's 50 Best Inventions of the Year in 2007:
- Link to TIME article * Triplespec First Light - the Cornell-led, no moving parts, cross-dispersed echelle has successful first run on the 200" telescope (October 2, 2007)
- Low cost MEMs AO testbed locks loop in the Robinson Lab (August 15, 2007)
- Palomar Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics achieves 48% K-band Strehl in superior seeing conditions at Palomar Mountain (A. Bouchez, LGS Team Lead) (July 29, 2007)
- COO awarded $1.1M by National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program for systems engineering and development of low-order wavefront sensors for PALM-3000 project (R. Dekany, PI) (Sept 3, 2006)
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