Kiwi optics for a giant scope

A New Zealand company that specialises in high-tech optics is taking on the world. Earlier this year KiwiStar Optics produced one of the world's largest astronomical lenses.

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Kiwi optics for a giant scope

From an unassuming industrial park on the outskirts of a Wellington suburb, a New Zealand company is delivering world-leading solutions for some of the planet’s most important astronomy projects, including several in Australia.

Earlier this year KiwoStar Optics produced one of the world’s largest astronomical lenses – at 1.1 metre in diameter – for the William Herschel Telescope project in Spain’s Canary Islands. It’s most recent project has been building and installing a spectrograph as part of the MINERVA-Australis telescope array at Queensland’s Mount Kent Observatory.