Slight Lack of Focus

Over the past few days work has been going on to get the telescope focused and aligned. And to have it stay that way, which is proving to be the challenge.

While a small group works on that, others keep themselves busy.

Alignment tent

To prevent air conditioner drafts, which significantly affect the images

Barth's shoes

For safety

Bill records a good reference focus

Up a tree

Javier in the tree

Aldous in the tree

Aperture Technologies tie

Javier looking very sharp

Taping up some blackening inside the telescope baffle

Focusing continues

Constructing the solar panel frames

Solar panel spider

Making friends with Steven's head

Inspecting the frames