Hi Glen,
Thanks for the post and great to see this new scope delivering fabulous
information already.
Quite a few discoveries will be made on the survey images alone.
Speaking recently with a friend who is a fellow engineer at the AAT, I was
heartened to learn that the Australian Government announced in July this year that
it was providing AUD88.4 million to help fund the 25m Giant Magellan
Telescope (GMT) which will also be sited in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
See story here -
http://www.physorg.com/news168008369.html
So Australia is now part of a consortium designing and building the world's
largest telescope.
Hopefully the survey data collected by Vista can contribute to making the
investment into GMT even more the worth while.