June 24, 2014

The Hardware: the instrument at BIS

First light of the CoRoT telescope (April 13-14 2005)


Close-up picture of the focal unit

Telescope and video electronics

Telescope aiming at the sky window

Telescope aiming at the sky window

Telescope aiming at the sky window and auxiliary camera

Collimator and clean tent

Operations in clean room between two images

Pierre Bodin and Vincent Costes

Elevator

Opening of the clean room sky window

Pierre Bodin, René Perez and Vincent Costes

Project team around Michel Auvergne

In the darkness of the clean room...

In the darkness of the clean room...

Sky around Polaris star

First display of Polaris

First light, and a first UFO !...

Pierre Agogué supervising the operations