Introduction

摘要

This conference, the fifth in the series on Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy, attracted a very rich programme of papers discussing all aspects of the design and delivery of complete instrument systems. The range of innovation in the instrument building community was particularly remarkable at this meeting. Instrument concepts matched to the ～1000m~2 collecting area of the extremely large telescopes were discussed alongside highly scientifically focused instruments for telescopes with ～1m~2 apertures. Meanwhile, the current large telescope observatories are considering their instrument suites in the light of future new developments. Survey instruments are becoming an enduring and significant theme at our meeting, whether designed for observing hundreds of galaxies, or hundreds of points on a radial velocity curve to reveal exo-planetary systems.