{"id":2328,"date":"2011-01-26T07:14:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T07:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2011-01-26T08:15:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T08:15:26","slug":"first-light-for-virus-w-spectrograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/?p=2328","title":{"rendered":"First Light for VIRUS-W spectrograph"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source:Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics: <\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\"First Light\" for VIRUS-W: This image (from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey)
\nshows the galaxy NGC2903 and the field of view of the spectrograph.
\nCredit: SDSS<\/p>\n

The new observing instrument VIRUS-W, built by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the University Observatory Munich, saw \"first light\" on 10th November at the Harlan J. Smith Telescope of the McDonald observatory in Texas. Its first images of a spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away where an impressive confirmation of the capabilities of the instrument, which can determine the motion of stars in near-by galaxies to a precision of a few kilometres per second. (read more)<\/p>\n\n\n\"Twitter\"<\/a>\n\"del.icio.us\"<\/a>\n\"Digg\"<\/a>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\n\"linked-in\"<\/a>\n\"Yahoo<\/a>\n\"StumbleUpon\"<\/a>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source:Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics: “First Light” for VIRUS-W: This image (from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey) shows the galaxy NGC2903 and the field of view of the spectrograph. Credit: SDSS The new observing instrument VIRUS-W, built by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the University Observatory Munich, saw “first light” on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-galaxies","category-satellites-probes-and-telescopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2331,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/2331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}