<\/a>Good old Building 11 <\/div>
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<\/a>Inside the highbay <\/div>
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<\/a>Professors at work <\/div>
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<\/a>Electronics in the Bemco <\/div>
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<\/a>The inner-frame computers <\/div>
The heart of BIT<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Bemcoing is exciting work <\/div>
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<\/a>UofT Branding on the telescope <\/div>
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<\/a>Looking straight into the telescope <\/div>
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<\/a>Looking less-straight into the telescope <\/div>
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<\/a>The half-disassembled and slightly peeling baffle tube <\/div>
This wraps around the telescope in flight<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Leeav on the phone <\/div>
He spent a long time trying to activate a burner SIM to use his phone here<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Fully loaded Bemco, ready to go <\/div>
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<\/a>Bemcoing in progress <\/div>
Looks the same, except now through a thick window<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Uncovered telescope <\/div>
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<\/a>Looking at the secondary mirror heaters\/thermometers <\/div>
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<\/a>Slight chip in back of secondary <\/div>
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<\/a>Group action shot <\/div>
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<\/a>![\"Telescope-eye](\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7201\/26371743653_3c33aba21b_n.jpg\")
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