FORS1 & FORS2, the UV-visual Focal Reducing / Low Resolution Spectrographs of the ESO/VLT (FORS1 decommissioned, FORS2 workhorse[1] of the VLT)

Fig.1: The opto-mechanical flexure compensation developed through the Astrophysical Institute at Göttingen ensures a specificaly sharp and stable imaging e.g. for weak-lensing and cosmic-shear detection of the twin instruments, the FOcal Reducing and low resolution Spectrographs FORS1 (here in background at Unit Telescope UT1) and FORS (in the foreground attached to the Unit Telescope UT2).
 
 

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