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SCUBA-2, the next generation submillimetre camera on the JCMT, has suffered another set back. After being installed at the site in April (photos) the team have been busy testing out the kit to prepare it for first light in the very near future.

Well it finally happened: SCUBA’s successor, SCUBA-2 has been installed on the JCMT in Hawaii. SCUBA stands for Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array and the original was a ground breaking instrument that finally allowed astronomers to probe the depths of star-forming regions and distant galaxies.

From authors Robert J. Simpson and Derek Ward-Thompson, the poster ‘3D HARP Data’ is listed as part of the ‘Star Formation: The First 3 Million Years’ session. Abstract: HARP-B data from the JCMT in Hawaii consists of large data cubes covering a wide range of velocity data.

This is my second conference poster and it is going up at the UK National Astronomy meeting in a couple of weeks. It will found in the Star Formation section of the conference proceedings. I have taken data from the HARP instrument on the JCMT and processed it as 3D models in order to gain a different perspective.