Then on the inside is where the magic happens, the light gets dispersed into tiny colours, and everything is quite complicated #NIRPS #Astronomy #AstronomerLife #exoplanets

This his how a high resolution #spectrograph, designed for #exoplanets studies, looks from the outside. A bit chamber, with isolation layers, tubes and warning signs #AstronomerLife #astronomy #NIRPS

It was about time. Today I visited #NIRPS! What you can see is the vacuum vessel inside which the spectrograph is. The whole thing is also inside heat insulation inside a temperature controlled room. #NIRPS is designed to measure precise radial velocities, which require really good insulation from temperature and pressure changes. #astronomy #AstronomerLife #exoplanets

Currently at #LaSilla doing some #NIRPS pre-commissioning

I can't believe I hadn't shared a picture of the #observatory! Not the best, but here you can see the 3.6m ESO telescope in the background (and the NTT right before it) . That is the #telescope that hosts #HARPS and #NIRPS. #astronomy #AstronomerLife

This time it's a bit special. As #NIRPS is still a baby instrument, I'm in charge of baby sitting it. I hope it doesn't cry while I sleep! #astronomy #AstronomerLife #instrumentation

Time to go to La Silla. New flight (Santiago to La Serena) and then a 2.5 hours on the road... And then I think I'll have to start working immediately. Instrumentation runs demand quite a lot of daily work and observing runs demand mostly nightly work. I'm getting quite a few of both this time! #astronomy #AstronomerLife #NIRPS

Have a safe trip to #LaSilla @asmasca, hope #NIRPS will give very good results asap. I saw François 2 weeks ago, and he told me the news were quite good. 👍