<\/a>Sun shields in the highbay <\/div>
Getting antenna cables routed<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Natalie routes her GPS cables <\/div>
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<\/a>Sean and Johanna on the cherry picker <\/div>
Which is out tool of choice for accessing Theo on the gondola<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Backing in <\/div>
Carefully<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Setting up the beam map source <\/div>
Holding it up really high is the cherry picker's other purpose<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Fully extended <\/div>
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<\/a>Spider seeing light <\/div>
With two telescopes open<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Beam mapping <\/div>
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<\/a>The source <\/div>
A black board for the star camera to look at, and the thermal source on the right<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Scanning with all five telescopes <\/div>
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