On the night of 17 Sep 2018, the Veloce project took a huge step forward, acquiring first light on the traditional "first light" target for planetary programs tau Ceti. The image above shows the data obtained on the star, with the small dots next to every echelle order showing the simultaneous ThXe calibration lines.

Our second target that night was the mid-M-dwarf planet host LHS3844, alerted by NASA's TESS just 12 days before to host a planet in a 0.46d orbit. We went on to observe it almost twice a night for every one of the 10 nights that followed.