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Enclosure ConstructionJuly 2001
July 28 July 24 July 17 July 11
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Photos by John Hill |
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| Thomas Granzer and Klaus Strassmeier from Potsdam visit the LBT site. | The main lobby of the enclosure has been painted. |
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| 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). |
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| EMCO workers installing trim around the shutter doors. | Definitely a chance of rain on this wet July afternoon. |
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Photos by Jim Slagle |
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| The hallway leading to the Control Room. | Help, I'm trapped in this maze of pipes! |
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| Construction Manager Wood Hart in the Level 4 hallway. | View looking down on the observing floor and the 4x10 meter hatch. |
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| More work on the shutter trim. | Freshly painted hallway on Level 1. |
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Photos by John Hill |
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| Some of the sleeping rooms on Level 2 now have the walls painted. | J.T. Williams at the far end of the Control Room. |
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| Inspecting the pressure blower for the mirror ventilation system. | Inspecting the heat exchanger for the mirror ventilation system. |
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| 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. |
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| Warren Davison is finally happy now that he has his dry stand fire hose in the observing chamber. | The view down from Level 7. |
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| Inspecting the upper left shutter bogies. | Another rainy monsoon day..... |
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| 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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Photo by Tim Williams |
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| Monsoon season panorama from the top of the LBT enclosure. South is on the edges. | |
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- © 2004 Large Binocular Telescope Corporation
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