Mirrors
Every week two mirrors are removed, cleaned and re-coated with aluminium. That way the whole array will be cleaned within a year. The mirror crew are so effective that they’ll sometimes do as many as six in a week.
Darragh O’Donoghue 1957-2015
Darragh O’Donoghue 1957-2015 In Memorium Darragh O’Donoghue was a truly remarkable man and an extremely talented scientist. He contributed enormously to astronomy, South Africa and, most profoundly, to the lives of his many colleagues and friends around the world. In 1977 he came to Cape Town, from Durban where he had studied physics as an […]