Yesterday was the first day that the second wave was in the highbay. The second wave consists of Matt. He was supposed to be closely followed by Mark, but the weather hasn’t been favourable (and if he doesn’t arrive late today, he will be delayed again tomorrow due to a Hilary Clinton visit).
Elio opened up the optics box, so I have the mandatory set of photographs of that. In other good news, the ACS and DAS systems are up and running, with lights happily blinking away.
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- New getter, with copper shield
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- Compared to old getter, with exposed charcoal
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- Juan remounts the computer, with his heat sink complete
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- This is the only freely available crane signals sheet we could find…
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- Jacketed Matt plays with heat
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- Printer works. Not exactly monumental
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- People went a little crazy with desk labels. Mark has a space all set up for his much-delayed arrival
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- Debagging the cryostat
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- The cryostat lid, and black-inside-shiny-outside radiation shields
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- The open optics box, seen from above
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- Closer look, with dichroics most prominent
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- The CSBF ground station things, just added along their wall
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- The computer, all ready to go
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- Supervisor Hat
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- Supervisor Matt
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- The optics box, resting on its shelf, and even more open
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- The table for the Half-Wave Plate Rotator (HWPR), and rear leg
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- Dichroic filters and bolometer arrays
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- Bolometer array, with polarizing and band-limiting filter
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- The 500μm array, with polarizing grid faintly visible
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- The Lyot Stop, with dichroics to the left, and window to the right (and mirrors below)
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- Again, it’s too tempting to take a bird’s eye from the mezzanine
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- Last look at the optics for the day
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- The Boss, Tiny Tim’s Antarctic counterpart
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- Less raw impressiveness than Tim, but launch vehicles all have a quiet strength to them
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- Impressive afternoon weather
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- Elio works on his rotator shaft parts
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- ACS Blinkenlights. Lights are good
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- When the DAS blinks too, the universe is happy
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- I set the nerd-bar high with this desk label for galadriel, our local server
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- Nick climbs. The power system is beneath him. This is my best picture of the power system. That’s sad
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- Matt, working at the DAS station
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