July 2001

July 28     July 24     July 17    July 11


July 28

Photos by John Hill

Thomas Granzer and Klaus Strassmeier from Potsdam visit the LBT site. The main lobby of the enclosure has been painted.
   
Klaus and Thomas look in the telescope pier where the fiber-fed spectrograph might be located John Hill having lunch on the balcony (and he is quite serious about that banana).
   
EMCO workers installing trim around the shutter doors. Definitely a chance of rain on this wet July afternoon.
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July 24

Photos by Jim Slagle

The hallway leading to the Control Room. Help, I'm trapped in this maze of pipes!
   
Construction Manager Wood Hart in the Level 4 hallway. View looking down on the observing floor and the 4x10 meter hatch.
   
More work on the shutter trim. Freshly painted hallway on Level 1.
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July 17

Photos by John Hill

Some of the sleeping rooms on Level 2 now have the walls painted. J.T. Williams at the far end of the Control Room.
   
Inspecting the pressure blower for the mirror ventilation system. Inspecting the heat exchanger for the mirror ventilation system.
   
The Allen-Bradley PLC controls the operation of the telescope enclosure systems. The plumbers have started putting the glycol hoses through the enclosure cable chain.
   
Warren Davison is finally happy now that he has his dry stand fire hose in the observing chamber. The view down from Level 7.
   
Inspecting the upper left shutter bogies. Another rainy monsoon day.....
   
  Studying the support of the lateral rollers on the enclosure bogies. The powerline is now installed in the forest corridor below Swift Trail.
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July 11

Photo by Tim Williams

Monsoon season panorama from the top of the LBT enclosure. South is on the edges.

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