1. Star Formation with PILOT: Science in the thermal infrared Michael Burton University of New South Wales

2. The Prototype: 60 cm telescope 1024 x 1024 InSb detector array 10 arcminute field of view Thermal infrared: Line: H 2 (2.4µm), PAHs (3.3µm), Br  (4.05µm) Continuum: L (3.5µm), M (4.8µm) SPIREX: South Pole Infrared Explorer JACARA / CARA Showed you could do science!

3. Star Formation and the Galactic Ecology PDRs to HII regions: Near-IR: H 2 (2.4µm), PAHs (3.3µm), Br  (4.05µm) Wide-field Thermal-IR Imaging Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Massive Star Formation

4. T Tauri regime Infrared excess KLnormalLM Rathborne, PhD 2002 SPIREX Thermal-IR Colour-Colour Diagrams Protoplanetary Disks Near-Infrared Thermal-Infrared

5. 3.29  m SPIREX 8  m MSX 21  m MSX

6. 20 to 30µm Massive Protostars Transmission: Dome C vs. Mauna Kea