Some of my favourite photos from the Spider integration campaign. June to August 2013 in Palestine, TX.
This is just a collection of previously-uploaded photos. Titles and captions may not all make sense without their original context.
Powder-coated Ed
From having machined teflon parts
Anne
Making cables. Clearly she likes this. Maybe she should do it more often?
Lorenzo
Cleans up around the focal plane
Insert inspection
Baffled Johanna
She shows off her handiwork
Sean poses
He and John left in the afternoon
"All" of the half-wave plates
The different frequency bands are white/black due to different anti-reflection coatings
Spanky
Anne and the VCS
Preparing to install the MLI layer
Clean highbay panorama
Featuring Gondola, Theo (the cryostat). Plus Becky and Johanna
Johanna paints inside a test baffle
So that we can test whether the inside should be shiny or white (which is "black" to Spider, due to titanium dioxide)
And one of her not looking goofy
This happened surprisingly often
Vacuum parts
In preparation for the liquid nitrogen fill
Cryo electronics
All six MCEs, for reading out six telescopes of detectors
Anne
Judging by giantness of smile, I think she was having by far the most fun
Don and Jon
Like in the first group, Don has a slower kart so has to try to block passers
Bill, going the fastest
As I experiment with panning
Ziggy prepares for safety
And crossfire?
Ed loads the BB pistol
The BB guns are a fun afternoon stress-relief activity
Becky and the pistol
Sunset
Yours truly
Becky conducts with a pair of sparklers
Black widow again
This time as close as I was willing to get
Natalie is testing the PSSes
Team Camo. Modeled by Jamil
The day shift's colours
Laika's on Team Red (the early shift)
With her favourite people: Anne, Johanna, and myself
Natalie demonstrates alternate styles
More alternate styles
Don
Team Camo
Retrieved
Jamil fills water balloons
Attempting to blow out sparklers
Atop the brownies for dessert
Reaching moment
Bill fills the liquid nitrogen source in the FTS
Natalie's drinking war face
Yes, that is a bottle of liquor shaped like an AK-47
Jeff poses
While confirming that most of the rest of my camera still works
Jon on a ladder, inspecting Theo's plumbing
He spends a lot of time doing this
Beam mapping
Lorenzo repaired the espresso machine (since rebroken...)
Because beam mapping involves a lot of waiting
Laika frolics in the garden
Not yet completely subject to the cone's sadness
Success at making fire
With technology
Jamil is wary
Styling
Sasha goes the extra mile and styles Jamil's mohawk for him
Team Mohawk portrait
With Spider
Don (with Laika's help) found a skull
Tiny-fucking-Tim
Sasha
Wearing a Spider shirt. Which probably means she won't be ready for "Spider shirt Monday"
Being cute
And Seans's I-have-a-kitty hold
With supervillainesque grin
Archery interlude: Sean got a compound bow!
My turn
I can haz polarization modulation?
John climbs the back to remove some tricky cables
Cowboy Ed
He got a cowboy hat
Midair cryostat
Telescope inserts
Accessible again, and ready for removal
So many telescopes
Too many?
Becky, almost finished with insert preparation
And enjoying it. Or maybe feigning amusement at my antics
Becky rocks the cowgirl hat
Pulling it off better than anyone else
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