Other than coding (which yields very exciting pictures, and huge amounts of movement in timelapse videos) yesterday’s work consisted of the beginnings of side-scoop gluing, and assembly of the primary/secondary mirror.
After dinner we had a few drinks outside the hotel. One of the locals brought over a frog to which he had given a lit cigarette. Update: I got a picture of the poor frog from Matt’s flickr stream.
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- Natalie models the CSBF T-Shirt from the visitor’s center. It is in the second coolest blue there is
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- The monster sighted last week has again preyed on an unsuspecting Natalie
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- Lorenzo with his star camera opened up
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- Gluing time
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- Tubes and inserts, ready to be glued
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- Tube gluing (after cleaning, sanding)
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- Insert insertion
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- Fitting the glued tube between the joints already mounted on the inner frame
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- Matt takes a hit of Helium. Sweet, sweet helium
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- Elio prepares the secondary mirror mount
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- Scotch Brite: useful scientific tool
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- Strutting the struts. They need support while the secondary is unmounted
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- Elio soldering a new receiver backplane
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- Mark becomes the second person caught napping (box reads “FRAGILE ↑”)
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- The smoking frog. Can you decide whether to laugh or cry?
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