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Back to Telescope ConstructionJune 2003
June 25 June 17 June 16 June 10
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Photos by John Hill and Steve Warner |
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| Butch Vaughn preparing the Elevation Instrument Platform for Installation. | Telescope structure at 45 degrees elevation angle. |
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| Lots of steel counterweights are needed to keep the structure balanced. | The view from high above. |
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| The view from the left front. | Jason Smith beside one of the small water ballast tanks. |
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| Welding the frame of the Mirror Transport Box at T.A. Caid in Tucson. | |
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Photos by John Hill |
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| The view of the telescope from the crane catwalk on level 9. | |
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Photos by Jim Slagle |
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| The aluminizing bell jar and dummy cell in Columbus, Ohio. | The Bell Jar carriage and the roughing pump system. |
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Photos by Jim Slagle and John Hill |
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| Assembly of the windbracing in the central section of the telescope elevation structure continues. | The second 8.4m primary mirror has moved onto the new polishing machine for backside loose-abrasive lapping. |
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- © 2005 Large Binocular Telescope Corporation
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