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We got the timelapse video webcam running yesterday (turns out it still had bugs). If I get around to it, I might make semi-recent views from the webcam available on this site. There was a bit more unpacking to do, but we pretty much got to real work: cable making, box fixing, and painting things […] We are now in Palestine! (Or rather, myself, Natalie, Juan, Barth, and Dina arrived yesterday) The customs folks at Pearson didn’t approve of the “intent” of Natalie or Dina, so didn’t let them through. I met them outside and waited with them. We were saved from confusion and almost missing the flight by Lori from […] Or, if you prefer, the Wall of Not Doom (WoND, pronounced “wand”). Whatever you call it, it’s everyone’s favourite absurdly large sun shield extension—and it was mostly assembled today. The gravity of the occasion called for such background music as Carmina Burana and Ride of The Valkyries. In this post, a few more photos of the cryostat setup, and the mega rack of monitors that Penn uses. Last week the BLAST cryostat arrived to begin the first full(-ish) integration of BLASTpol. Upon arrival it was undressed and bore its tender bits, to have travel legs replaced with thermally isolating ones. Also the HWPR (pronounced “hooper”, despite what Natalie may say about whatever the “whipper” is) had to be removed and sent immediately […] Juan has taken on fixing and programming the inner frame balance pump. Presumably he took these pictures. While I was in Philadelphia (a couple months ago now…I’m still posting old pictures), everyone back in Toronto was working really hard to get the gondola pointing, the star camera mounted, and sun shield completely assembled. All this in preparation for the PIC (which can be thought of as “the pick”), at which NASA decides […] I downloaded a bunch of pictures today, and there are a startling amount taken of the lock pin. So I figured I’d post at least some of them, and combine it with a few I took long ago while repairing it. A post of updated BLASTpol photos. Since the last update not much has changed. The OSC is mounted in a temporary manner with no PV. There are about 4000lbs of sand bags strapped in the SIP mount. There are a few more cables than before. Enzo wanted pictures of Mark Halpern’s BLAST pivot tester. So, here they are. It has turnbuckles for grabbing the pivot tabs (on the stator) and holding tension. Currently nothing grabs the rotor, but Pedro is working on that. |
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