<\/a>Tyr balancing the inner frame <\/div>
By hose clamping lead bricks all over it<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Juan covering more of the sun shields in alumnized mylar <\/div>
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<\/a>More mylarizing <\/div>
He stops to laugh at me, after I'd followed him with a camera for a while<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Tripod head Barth <\/div>
People seem to like wearing my tripod on their head (including me)<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Elio drew a custom mug for Tristan (copied from real mug online) <\/div>
one by one the penguins slowly steal my sanity<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Star camera surgery <\/div>
Mark opens up the back in place. A connector needed fixing<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Lock motor <\/div>
Seen beneath the starboard support pyramid<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Secondary mirror focus actuators <\/div>
To go with my photo of the lock actuator<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Juan also covers foam triangles with mylar <\/div>
These can be easily removed in places that require occasional access<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>LDB <\/div>
Has flags now<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Greg and Laura climb Ob Hill <\/div>
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<\/a>![\"McMurdo\"](\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8204\/8228776226_6eda8d1542_n.jpg\" "\\"McMurdo\\"")
There wasn’t a lot of action in the lab yesterday: Juan did some some more arts and crafts covering the sun shields in aluminized mylar, and Tyr balanced the inner frame. To supplement this crop of photos, I went outside and took a panorama of the LDB (Long Duration Balloon) site. In the evening, Greg, Laura, and I also climbed up Ob(servation) Hill, while Barth and Tristan were scared off by the heavy and cold wind. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5999"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5999"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6003,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5999\/revisions\/6003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}