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  • 2023 Holiday Card
  • Rubin Observatory features prominently in the center of this drone video atop its Chilean desert summit on Cerro Pachón. The sky is clear blue, and the setting sun initially glows from the right, shifting left as the drone flies clockwise around the observatory. A large crane sits next to the observatory with its arm extended, looking small compared to the observatory building. The desert mountains recede into the distance, interspersed with hazy atmosphere.
    Drone video of Rubin in December 2023
  • Rubin Observatory glows golden orange at sunset. The boot-shaped observatory, with its long low service building and angular silver dome, is oriented to the right and sits among construction equipment and shipping containers. The reflective dome shines brightly with orange sunlight. The summit ridge extends back on the right side of the image, with a couple other telescope domes visible. The Chilean desert mountains continue into the background beneath a blue sky.
    Rubin Sunset December 2023
  • Rubin Observatory glows golden orange at sunset. The boot-shaped observatory, with its long low service building and angular silver dome, is oriented to the right and slightly away from us, and sits among construction equipment and shipping containers. The reflective dome shines brightly with orange sunlight. The summit ridge extends back and to the left, with a couple other telescope domes visible. The Chilean desert mountains continue into the background beneath a blue sky.
    Rubin Sunset December 2023
  • A sunset drone shot of Rubin Observatory from behind, atop its desert mountain site on Cerro Pachón. A white crane with arm extended sits in front of the observatory. The smaller dome of the nearby Auxiliary Telescope is visible to the left, with a dirt road between it and the main observatory. The Chilean desert mountain ridges recede into the distance under a blue sky. The peaks on the left are higher in elevation than those on the right.
    Rubin December 2023
  • Rubin Observatory stands prominently in the center of this image atop its Chilean desert summit on Cerro Pachón. The sky is clear blue, and the setting sun glows from the left, illuminating the left side of the observatory. A large crane sits to the right of the observatory with its arm extended, looking small compared to the observatory building. The foreground summit area is shadowed, and the desert mountains recede into the distance, interspersed with hazy atmosphere. The telescopes of the neighboring Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory are visible as tiny bumps on a distant summit to the right.
    Rubin Sunset December 2023
  • A small round telescope dome sits on a flattened desert summit area under a clear blue sky. The view is from a higher summit, looking down on the telescope. The brown Chilean desert mountain ridges recede into the background like crinkled paper. A nearby, larger telescope dome peeks over a nearby ridge to the right.
    AuxTel December 2023
  • A smattering of hundreds of galaxies of different shapes and sizes against a black background, Semi-opaque teal blobs surround and connect many of the galaxies, tracing the distribution of the countless wandering stars that make up the intracluster light. The ghostly teal glow is primarily concentrated in an irregular shape around the galaxies in the center of the image, but some larger individual galaxies off to the sides have their own separate glows.
    Enhanced image of Intracluster light in the Abell 85 galaxy cluster
  • AMCR Group Photo
  • Rubin Observatory's Telescope Mount Assembly, November 2023
  • TMA November 2023
  • A 60-second video showing the Rubin Observatory telescope moving during balance testing to ensure the telescope is properly balanced for other future tests. The first 25 seconds shows the large teal mount structure from above, moving from a tilt of 45 degrees to vertical, then down to horizontal and back to vertical. From 25 to 35 seconds, we see the large teal mount structure from floor level, tilting from vertical down to horizontal. From 35 seconds to the end, we see the large teal mount structure from above again. It's pointed vertical and spins like a top counterclockwise, then pauses, then spins clockwise, then pauses, and finally spins counterclockwise again.
    TMA Balance and Dynamic Testing
  • People in a line in front of the old Steward Observatory building. Some are shaded by trees.
    IVOA Group Photo
  • The LSST "first stone," i.e. a large boulder with a plaque from the initial site blast at the start of Rubin Observatory construction
    Rubin Observatory First Stone
  • Rubin Observatory on its desert summit site, with a vast expanse of desert mountains receding into the background beneath a blue sky. Rubin is a boot-like shape on the left, with a long white service building extending toward us and to the left and angular silver dome rising on the right. The smaller dome of the 1.2-meter Auxiliary Telescope is visible to the right on a lower flattened area, with a dirt road snaking to it from the main observatory.
    Drone view of Rubin Observatory
  • Rubin Observatory on its desert summit site, with a vast expanse of desert mountains receding into the background beneath a blue sky. Rubin is a boot-like shape in the center, with a long white service building extending to the right and angular silver dome rising on the left.
    Rubin Observatory
  • A small telescope dome sits atop a flat area on a desert mountain summit, with a yellow crane with arm lowered to the right. A red and white communications tower blocks part of the telescope building, and an even smaller dome that hosts Rubin's all-sky camera sits on its own white steel tower to the left. Towering desert peaks rise in the background beneath a mostly cloudy sky.
    Rubin Observatory Summit Site
  • View looking into the Rubin Observatory control room. The back wall is filled with large TV screens with multiple windows of technical information. A lone chair with a black jacket draped over the back sits at a curved desk with yet more computer monitors
    Rubin Observatory Control Room
  • Two women in orange construction safety vests and white hard hats converse in front of a railing separating them from a yellow crane structure in the background
    Sitio de la cumbre del Observatorio Rubin
  • Two people equipped with high elevation safety harnesses ready to work on the observatory dome. The people are facing the teal steel wall and away from us, and are wearing orange safety vests and white hard hats.
    Rubin Observatory Summit Site
  • A group of people stand in the telescope's dome area, which is a construction site. Everyone is wearing orange vest and hard hats, busy with their respective tasks.
    Rubin Observatory Summit Site
  • Looking down from the top of the telescope mount, into the center and at the primary mirror stand-in mass made of steel. Various metal beams and bars criss-cross the view.
    Rubin Observatory Summit Site
  • Rubin Observatory Summit Site
  • A person in a red and black jacket with orange hard hat looks at something out of view to the right. A large piece of unidentifiable white machinery is in the background, with a blue circle and white text reading "26 Mts" printed on it.
    Rubin Observatory Summit Site
  • A group of four people in orange construction safety clothing and hard hats stand inside Rubin Observatory's dome area against a background of teal steel beams.
    Rubin Observatory Summit Site
  • Rubin Observatory under a starry night sky. The observatory sits on top of its rocky summit site in the foreground, and is made of a long white building that extends to the left and a silver angular dome sticking up. The Milky Way is visible, spanning the image horizontally above the observatory as a dense stream of stars interspersed with dark and wispy dust clouds. The yellow glow of city lights in La Serena are seen in the distance to the lower left.
    Rubin Observatory Under the Milky Way
  • A smattering of hundreds of galaxies of different shapes and sizes against a black background, Semi-opaque teal blobs surround and connect many of the galaxies, tracing the distribution of the countless wandering stars that make up the intracluster light. The ghostly teal glow is primarily concentrated in an irregular shape around the galaxies in the center of the image, but some larger individual galaxies off to the sides have their own separate glows.
    Enhanced image of Intracluster light in the Abell 85 galaxy cluster
  • A drone video flying counterclockwise around Rubin Observatory at sunset. The drone remains stationary until 15 seconds in, looking at Rubin's shining silver done and white service pointed away from us. Then the drone begins its slow counterclockwise journey, ending on the other side of the observatory from where it started. The skies are clear blue, and the desert mountain landscape has a golden hue from sunset, with the observatory and surrounding structures casting long shadows. The neighboring Gemini Observatory starts out visible to Rubin's left, moving to the right and out of view as the drone flies around Rubin.
    Sunset fly-around
  • Rubin Observatory in a golden sunset, with silver dome glinting in the setting sun's light. We see the observatory's long white service building and vertical silver dome such that the white service building appears pointed slightly to our left. To the left, the brilliantly setting sun glows bright orange, illuminating the landscape in a golden glow. The Chilean desert mountain ridges become more and more opaque as they recede into the distance, creating a layered look.
    Rubin at sunset
  • A white observatory building with a shiny silver dome sits on a rocky site under a dark late-twilight sky. A second small dome sits on a neighboring hill. The sky fills the top half of the image and is a uniform dark blue, with a hint of orange on the left horizon. Tiny pinpricks of stars are scattered in the sky. The brown, rocky desert landscape fills the bottom half of the image, darkened so that details are hard to pick out. A collection of shipping containers are lined up side by side in the lower right.
    Rubin Observatory at Twilight
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