Weaving Fibres with WEAVE

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WEAVE


This is the fibre plate of the WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE), a multi-object fibre-fed spectrograph mounted on the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope.

Spectrograph

Like other spectographs, WEAVE takes light from objects in the sky and measures how the brightness varies with colour/wavelength.