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  • View looking up the last stretch of a snow-covered road and landscape toward Rubin Observatory. Rubin is a boot-shaped building on the left, with long white service building extending left and angular silver dome sticking up. A smaller silver dome peeks up over a higher ridge on the right.
    Snow Day at Rubin Observatory, August 2024
  • View up toward the Cerro Pachón mountain ridge with a plowed dirt road in the foreground. The distant mountain ridge spans most of the image in the distance, undulating with slight elevation variation. The ridge line is broken by three telescope domes sticking up like nubs - two toward the left and one on the right. The sky is white with wispy clouds.
    Snow Day at Rubin Observatory, August 2024
  • Looking up a white, snow-covered road toward observatory buildings under a clear blue sky. Rubin Observatory's boot-shaped building is left of center, with shiny dome glinting in sunlight. Rubin's smaller auxiliary telescope sits on a hill to right of center.
    Snow on the Summit
  • Looking up a white, snow-covered road toward an observatory buildings under a clear blue sky. Rubin Observatory's boot-shaped building is left of center, with shiny dome extending up on the left and long white building pointing to the left.
    Snow on the Summit
  • A snow-covered desert mountain landscape under clear blue skies. The perspective is from a peak up above, looking down upon a flat area with a few buildings, and snow-capped mountains in the distance. In the distant set of mountains, we can see a clear line between the snow capped peaks and snow-free lower elevations.
    Snow on the Summit
  • Rubin Observatory's 8.4-meter mirror is coated
  • Rubin Observatory's 8.4-meter mirror is coated
  • Rubin's Unique Mirror Design
  • Rubin's Unique Mirror Design
  • The yellow disc of the full moon dominates the image. The moon has nearly risen above the horizon runninb along the bottom of the image, but is just cut off from being a perfect circle at the bottom. Rubin Observatory is silhouetted toward the right side of the moon, shaped like a boot with low service building extending to the right and shiny angular dome sticking up. A small-looking crane sits to the left of the observatory.
    Rubin Observatory and the full moon
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two hauling trucks pull a trailer that holds Rubin's 8.4-meter primary mirror inside its white hexagonal box.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • A large hauling trucks pulls a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror. Off to the right, the large silver donut shape of the steel stand-in mass for the mirror now lies outside on the gravel .
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • The white hexagonal box that holds Rubin's 8.4-meter primary mirror sits on top of a flat bed trailer and is about to be hauled out of its large storage shed by a hauling truck. A person in a yellow construction vest and hard hat supervises at the left.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • A large hauling trucks pulls a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror. Off to the right, the large silver donut shape of the steel stand-in mass for the mirror now lies outside on the gravel .
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Rays of the setting sun appear to emanate from Rubin Observatory atop its desert mountain summit. The clear sky takes up 75% of the image, and light rays from the setting sun radiate from the center horizon like spokes on a wheel. The boot-shaped observatory, with long white service building pointing left and angular silver dome sticking up, sits atop a shadowed summit on the right. Lower altitude mountain ridges recede into the distance.
    Sunset at Cerro Pachón in February 2024
  • Prep Work on Primary Mirror
  • Visitors and activities at the Rubin Observatory booth at AAS243
  • Visitors and activities at the Rubin Observatory booth at AAS243
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