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    • A view of the completed system, tilted. Persons in the room provide scale, showing the system is about a tall as a person
      Filter exchange system
    • Two pairs of human legs extend from beneath the suspended system, which has a golden, cylindrical housing
      Filter exchange
    • The sun sets behind the service building in multicolored sky filled with thin clouds and a contrail.
      Rubin Observatory with Wispy Clouds
    • A raft of black, reflective CCD sensors is being lifted into place within the cryostat
      Ninth RTM installed
    • The glass lens of the huge LSST Camera inside its black carbon fiber casing. The curvature of the lens extends above the rim of the black casing, like a glass of water about to overflow. Four people in white head-to-toe clean room suits stand in a circle in the background of this white room.
      The LSST Camera Lens is here!
    • A person in a full head-to-toe white clean room suit works beneath one of the LSST Camera CCD rafts suspended from a metal support. The CCD raft contains nine CCD chips arranged in a square. The chips are oriented to face the work space below. The image is focused on the CCD raft, and the person standing behind is slightly blurred and out of focus.
      LSST 1st Science Raft
    • The metallic CCD housing and mount reflect shades of blue, neon green and red.
      Camera CCD
    • A group of about 35 people in orange safety vests pose in front of a large cylindrical silver structure.
      Coating Chamber Group Photo
    • A group of about 30 people wearing orange safety vests stand in front of a cylindrical white container.
      Group Photo with Mirror
    • A convoy of 4 transport vehicles, one carrying the large mirror container, travel along a dirt road
      Mirror Transport
    • M1M3 Transported to the Summit
    • Rubin Observatory facility with unfinished dome made of teal scaffolding
      Rubin Observatory with Dome Scaffolding
    • A teal storage shed with an open front is in the foreground, and Rubin Observatory is in the background
      Mirror Storage Shed
    • Rubin Observatory facility with unfinished dome against a purple and orange sky and silhouettes of mountain ridges in the distance.
      Rubin at twilight
    • The mirror container barely clears the sides of the tunnel. Several workers walk alongside the container.
      Mirror in the Tunnel
    • Workers help guide a truck transporting the main mirror through the Puclaro tunnel, with very little clearance to spare.
      Primary Mirror goes through the Tunnel
    • a worker straddles the midline of the road inside of the tunnel, ready to give signals to the driver as the truck enters the tunnel.
      M1M3 Puclaro Tunnel passage
    • the mirror container extends across the entire roadway. Cars pass by temporarily driving off the road.
      Night transport
    • a large crane used to lift the mirror is positioned alongside the ship
      BBC Manitoba
    • The primary mirror is packaged in a white octagonal container between several interconnected truck trailers
      Primary mirror transport
    • The cylindrical mirror with a protective blue cover sits below an array of smaller circular suction cups that will be used to lift it.
      Primary Mirror Below Lifting Fixture
    • the interior curvature has a steeper angle and consists of less than half of the diameter of the entire mirror
      Mirror Polishing
    • a worker uses a magnifying headset to work on exposed circuitry of the filter changer
      Working on the autochanger
    • Telescope Mount Assembly Teams
    • Rubin Observatory and the Auxiliary Telescope appear side by side on their two small summits.
      Rubin Observatory in Blue Twilight
    • many mechanically controlled round suction cups cover the mirror surface
      suction cup closeup
    • the mirror, held by suction cups, is being lowered into its shipping container
      suction lift
    • A large turquoise structure sits atop an orange transport truck while several men in safety vests look on
      Primary Mirror Cell in Tucson
    • CC-IN2P3 data center
    • About 200 people in teal LSST t shirts pose on a lawn near in front of a swimming pool.
      2018 LSST group photo
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