Monthly Archives: April 2025

First Light!

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We are excited to report that we had the first light on 22 March 2025! PFS is the project proceeded under the international collaboration since the kick-off meeting in 2010. A part of our activities have been reported here on the blog. Thanks to great efforts on the collaborating institutes and the partners and the vendors, all the instrument were… Read more »

First observation of SSP

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Dr. Khee-Gan Lee (Associate Professor, Kavi IPMU) It was a moment of anticipation and nervous energy, pent up from 16 years of discussions, preparations, planning, and hard work from all involved. But soon after midnight on March 27th, the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) — the most complex instrument ever built for the Subaru Telescope — was pointed at an unremarkable… Read more »