WIYN HYDRA
OSL has recently updated the control software for the Hydra instrument on the WIYN Observatory’s 3.5m telescope. Hydra is a spectroscopic-fibre positioner that places up…
Extreme Photonics Applications Centre (EPAC)
Laser technology will take a big step forward when the Extreme Photonics Applications Centre (EPAC), being built by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)…
CHIMERA
A fusion equipment testing facility, known as CHIMERA, being built by the UKAEA (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority) in Rotherham, Yorkshire will use EPICS control…
Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO)
The SKAO, established in January 2021, is the world’s second intergovernmental organisation to be dedicated to astronomy. Headquartered in the UK on the grounds of…
High-speed Detectors at Diamond Light Source
OSL consultant Alan Greer is working at Diamond Light Source (DLS) in Oxfordshire UK to provide data acquisition and control software for new, high-performance detectors…
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
The LSST is one of the largest US federally funded projects in optical astronomy and OSL won the contract through an open tender process. The…
Cryogenic Instrument for Hawaii
CryoNIRSP, the Cryogenic Infra-red Spectropolarimeter, will be one of the first-light instruments on the DKIST (Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope) currently under construction in Maui,…