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Back to Telescope ConstructionJanuary 2003
January 30-31 January 21-28 January 18 January 2
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Photos by John Hill |
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| One of four (right rear) elevation hydrostatic bearing pads mounted on the Azimuth Frame. | Installation of the moat to collect the return oil from the Hydrostatic Bearing System. |
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| View of the Azimuth Frame (turned sideways) from the front of the observing chamber. | Luciano Miglietta connecting the control boxes for the Oil Central Unit. |
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| The "thin" shell for the LBT672 adaptive secondary being aspherized on the milling machine at the Mirror Lab. | |
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Photos by Jim Slagle |
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| Section of the oil moat arrive at MGIO basecamp. | Close up view of the moat section. |
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| Moat installation on the mountain. | |
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Photos by John Hill |
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| Luciano Miglietta and Marco Salvati discuss the progress of telescope assembly on the mountain. | The elevation hydrostatic pads and most of the oil plumbing have been installed. |
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| Pat Osmer and Jim Krygier next to the Azimuth Frame. | For assembly, the telescope is turned at right angles to the shutter doors. |
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| SAC chair Tom Herbst on the balcony above the telescope. | The view down on the Azimuth Frame with the surrounding platform skirt. |
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| Wide angle view of the observing chamber. | The two LBT 8.4m primary mirrors side by side in the Mirror Lab. LBT2 is facedown in the handling ring in the foreground, and LBT1 is faceup on the polishing cell in the background. Both mirrors are in the casting lab due to construction activities in the polishing lab this month. (The dots on LBT1 are paper fiducials to calibrate the distortion in the test optics. The dots on LBT2 are the ventilation holes in the backplate of the mirror sealed with silicone in preparation for generating.) |
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Photos by John Hill |
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| The completed LBT enclosure on Emerald Peak. | |
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| Looking West from Level 10 of the LBT enclosure. | Looking up the LBT access road. |
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| Hertz sub-millimeter telescope (SMT) with LBT in the background. | |
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| The view from Bonita. | The structure of the first four acquisition / guiding / wavefront sensing (AGW) units in Potsdam. |
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