Half moon platform: maintenance on GTC

Benjamin Siegel; Nauzet Salazar; Germán Prieto; Alfonso Gardell; Ana García; Fran Lorente; Pedro Saura; Antonio Tortosa; Fran Marín

doi:10.1117/12.3020043

11 September 2024 Half moon platform: maintenance on GTC

Benjamin Siegel, Nauzet Salazar, Germán Prieto, Alfonso Gardell, Ana García, Fran Lorente, Pedro Saura, Antonio Tortosa, Fran Marín

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Proceedings Volume 13094, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes X; 1309448 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020043
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

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Abstract

In late 2021 the GTC was equipped with a fully integrated lifting work platform, providing easy and fast access to all telescope tube focal stations, i.e. Cassegrain and four Folded Cassegrain Stations. The platform offers a huge and comfortable work area, together with a high load capacity and a very short positioning time, complying with industrial safety standards. The highlight is the possibility for the staff to travel with the platform. The main benefits of the platform are safer work conditions and a shorter maintenance time, without introducing fixed elements in the telescope tube which would have degraded the tracking performance of the telescope.

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Benjamin Siegel, Nauzet Salazar, Germán Prieto, Alfonso Gardell, Ana García, Fran Lorente, Pedro Saura, Antonio Tortosa, and Fran Marín "Half moon platform: maintenance on GTC", Proc. SPIE 13094, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes X, 1309448 (11 September 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020043

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