<\/a>Jon on a ladder, inspecting Theo's plumbing <\/div>
He spends a lot of time doing this<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Jamil commands the elevation <\/div>
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<\/a>Theo and the Gondola <\/div>
Together at last<\/div><\/div>
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Finally pointing along the bore-sight<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Waveplate guys: Lorenzo <\/div>
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<\/a>Waveplate guys: Sean <\/div>
They were listening to try to determine if one of the rotators was moving<\/div><\/div>
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Last week, at the end of my time on night shift, Theo was moved onto the gondola. I missed the operation itself but, thanks to camera and lens loans from John and Jon, I got some photos of the result. We also concluded our epic water balloon fight. Sean and I won by getting the most wet while wrestling over a garden hose. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285"}],"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=6285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6289,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions\/6289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}