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Back to Telescope ConstructionApril 2003
April 30 April 29 April 26 April 16 April 11 April 9 April 3
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Photos by Ned Franz |
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| Lifting the first (left) Spider Arm up through the hatch. | ....and installing it on the telescope. |
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| The Spider Arm bolts onto the C-Ring to support the upper parts of the telescope "tube" or elevation structure. | |
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Photos by John Hill |
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| Preparing the Cell Arms and the Spider Arms for installation on the telescope. | The Spider Arm will be attached to the C-Ring in this orientation. |
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Photos by John Hill |
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| At last a picture of the front side of the LBT enclosure. | With the open SMT building in the foreground. |
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| The normal parking position faces the other way. | It is almost finished! |
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| The waterfall on Post Creek. | |
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Photos by John Hill |
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| Jason Smith, Jim Slagle and Doug Officer in front of the telescope structure. | First motion of the Elevation Structure with the Auxiliary Drives. |
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Photos by John Hill |
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| Dave Beaty wiring actuator connections in the SX mirror cell. | Generating the back side of the second 8.4m primary mirror. |
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| The first 8.4m primary mirror under the test tower. | |
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| The integrated P45 prototype adaptive secondary using the cabling style developed for LBT672. | The BCU (Basic Control Unit) DSP board developed by Microgate for computing wavefront slopes.. |
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Photos by John Hill |
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| More windbracing and other telescope parts arrive on the mountain. | Cell Arms arrive on April 8 (photo by J. Slagle). |
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Photos by John Hill |
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| LBT at sunset on April 2, from Swift Trail near Snow Flat. | Windbracing installed between the two C-Rings to define the elevation structure of the telescope. |
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