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June 2003

June 25    June 17    June 16    June 10


June 25

Photos by John Hill and Steve Warner

Butch Vaughn preparing the Elevation Instrument Platform for Installation. Telescope structure at 45 degrees elevation angle.
Lots of steel counterweights are needed to keep the structure balanced. The view from high above.
The view from the left front. Jason Smith beside one of the small water ballast tanks.
Welding the frame of the Mirror Transport Box at T.A. Caid in Tucson.

June 17

Photos by John Hill

The view of the telescope from the crane catwalk on level 9.

June 16

Photos by Jim Slagle

The aluminizing bell jar and dummy cell in Columbus, Ohio. The Bell Jar carriage and the roughing pump system.

June 10

Photos by Jim Slagle and John Hill

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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