<\/a>Sahsa begins unwiring <\/div>
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<\/a>Ziggy too <\/div>
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<\/a>John climbs the back to remove some tricky cables <\/div>
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<\/a>Housekeeping cable bundles <\/div>
Sahsa really likes these cables. And these bundles too<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Cowboy Ed <\/div>
He got a cowboy hat<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>He's lassoed himself one big cryostat <\/div>
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<\/a>Cowgirl sasha <\/div>
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<\/a>Preparing to lift Theo <\/div>
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<\/a>Lifted Theo <\/div>
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<\/a>Midair cryostat <\/div>
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<\/a>Anne controls one of the chains <\/div>
Aren't antiquated hoists great? So many extra jobs to take photos of people doing<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>At the stroke of midnight, the gondola transforms back into a collection of tubes <\/div>
And a single mysterious slipper?<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Becky helps prepare bolt holes <\/div>
Each one was painstakingly retapped or repaired to save time and trouble in Antarctica<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Jon: Cryo Detective <\/div>
Looking inside Theo for clues about performance<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Insulation removal <\/div>
Everything from the bottom is removed to access the inserts<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Cryo team action shot <\/div>
Removal of shields<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Ed preapres the top dome windows for shipping <\/div>
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<\/a>Joseph removes his SIP. Allowing the rest of the gondola to come apart <\/div>
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<\/a>Joseph (mostly hidden, as usual) takes the SIP away <\/div>
I needed one last Joseph picture<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Telescope inserts <\/div>
Accessible again, and ready for removal<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Anne tackles the top <\/div>
Taking special care of delicate and irreplaceable filters<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Sean also prepares bolt holes <\/div>
And thinks science?<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Insert stands <\/div>
Standing. But with no inserts yet<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Telescope dissassembly team <\/div>
They open each tube, to make a few modifications before shipping<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Anne heroically reorgnizes all the fasteners <\/div>
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<\/a>Sunbeams and satellite dishes <\/div>
Disclaimer: dishes don't necessarily point at satellites (especially the one pointed down)<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>So many telescopes <\/div>
Too many?<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Becky, almost finished with insert preparation <\/div>
And enjoying it. Or maybe feigning amusement at my antics<\/div><\/div>
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With Theo warmed up, there was nothing left to do in the campaign but take everything apart and pack. There was a lot to disassemble, and even more to pack, but we had a large group of people who were all pretty motivated to finish. There were still a couple long days, not to mention exhausting hours inside the sauna of a sea container in the Texas sun. But that was no match for lightening hearts, and the simple pleasure of well-packed boxes. We even managed to relax a little in the last few days. Now, we’ve all gone our separate ways. But it won’t be long before we’re together again in Antarctica doing this all again—and more! […]<\/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\/6327"}],"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=6327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6330,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327\/revisions\/6330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}