Anthony Horton<p>Because I work on it I feel obliged to note that the MAVIS instrument being built for the VLT telescope (<a href="https://mavis-ao.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">mavis-ao.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) will be really, really, really good at the crucial Cepheid/RGB Tip/JAGB part of the Cosmic Distance Ladder, thanks to its unparalleled combination of spatial resolution and sensitivity, and both imaging and integral field spectroscopic capabilities.</p><p>This does get called out in the MAVIS Science Case paper, section 3.4: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09242" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2009.09242</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Cosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cosmology</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MAVIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAVIS</span></a></p>