2024 : a major milestone for GRAVITY+
Delivery and qualification of GRAVITY+ equipment on the sky

25 décembre 2024

30 April 2024, preparation of Preliminary European Acceptance (PAE)

27 May 2024, departure from Meudon

2 July 2024, installation in Paranal (Chile)

August-September 2024, on sky tests

Part of the GRAVITY+ team in the VLTI control room on 17 August 2024.
Observation of an AGN at z=4 on 27 September.
Locking the GPAO adaptive optics with 4-telescope on the binary star UX Tau.

Banner image credits : ESO/Luis Calçada