<\/a>Leeav setting up the telescopes ground-testing mount <\/div>
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<\/a>Marking the center of the secondary mirror <\/div>
For alignment<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Giving the mirror a final wash <\/div>
Dish soap and water is the cleaner of choice<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Reinstalling the primary mirror <\/div>
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<\/a>Checking alignment <\/div>
With a slightly startled Jurgen<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>And startled Barth <\/div>
The locals are beginning to notice my presence.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Burgers for lunch <\/div>
Thanks to John<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Mathew prepares counterweights on the telescope mount <\/div>
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<\/a>Looking into the telescocpe <\/div>
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<\/a>Vy works on laser alignment <\/div>
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<\/a>Laser alignment target <\/div>
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<\/a>Please do not touch! Optical alignment going on! <\/div>
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<\/a>Javier repairs some power wires <\/div>
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<\/a>Inside the master control computer box <\/div>
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<\/a>The tip-tilt mirror <\/div>
This provides fine correction for the telescope wobbling around<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Outside the highbay, looking west <\/div>
On a nice sunny morning<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>The concrete post <\/div>
Showing signs of having once served some purpose<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Looking towards the launch pad <\/div>
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<\/a>Storage shed <\/div>
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<\/a>Fire truck <\/div>
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<\/a>Hidden resting spot <\/div>
Behind the highbay<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Installing the reaction wheel <\/div>
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<\/a>Aldous helps from below <\/div>
<\/div><\/div>![Working on "the boat" \u2022 <a style="font-size:0.8em;" href="http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/26981817641\/" target="_blank">View on Flickr<\/a>](https:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7605\/26981817641_3b53d484ef_m.jpg "Working on \\"the boat\\"")
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<\/a>Working on "the boat" <\/div>
The BIT outer frame is boatlike (other than the holes near the bottom...)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Installing boxes <\/div>
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<\/a>Fine tuning mirror alignment <\/div>
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<\/a>![\"Jurgen](\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7097\/26955916832_11e7cf4b01_n.jpg\")
With the telescope disassembled, inspected and cleaned, it is ready to be put back together again. Then the mirrors get aligned in preparation for focus testing. Reassembly also starts in gondola land. On a nice sunny morning, I take a walk around the highbay. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519"}],"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=6519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6520,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions\/6520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}