performance back to top




Instrument delivered on budget and 3 months ahead of schedule.
50 nights allocated on the WHT since first light on 16 May 2002.
2% technical downtime, mainly due to hardware faults.
Nearly all performance goals met, including throughput (50%), image quality (seeing limited at 0.6"), flexure (10 microns), timing accuracy (50 µs) and detector-limited data throughput.