Much like it is for the blogger, it is a real milestone for VIRUS to hit 50.    In the case of VIRUS it is 50 units.   This was achieved over this past weekend after spending several months with just 47 units.

Reconstruction from 50 IFU/VIRUS units on the sky.  Each small square is 50 arcseconds on a side.   There is actually a gap of 50 arcseconds between each IFU/VIRUS unit but it has been compacted in this view to avoid to much white space.

This means with every 6 minute exposure we take on the sky we get over 22,000 spectra!

On Monday we installed 2 more units bringing us to 52!!!   Well on our way toward HETDEX science!