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  • A view looking into the LSST Camera's huge opening. The camera opening is a large black donut shape, with reflections of ceiling light revealing the presence of glass lenses. In the center of the opening is the camera's focal plane detector, which is made of 189 square CCD chips arranged in a roughly square shape. The camera is suspended on a white metal frame with white handrails. The completely white room gives the image an overall sterile feel.
    Face to Face with the LSST Camera
  • A group of six people stand in front of the huge LSST digital camera, which is oriented so that we're looking into the lens opening and at the blue-tinted tiled focal plane of CCDs. The group of people are all outfitted head to toe in white clean room garb, with hair caps, face masks, white onesies, and foot covers.
    Lens cap off
  • A large gold metal ring surrounds the LSST Camera focal plane
    Camera entrance lens
  • A view looking through the L1 lens, showing a person inspecting it from behind. The lens is taller than the person.
    L1 lens for the LSST Camera
  • A view of large space containing various equipment related to the observatory.
    Maintenance Hall
  • Two clean room technicians inspect a circular piece of glass
    L3 lens installation
  • 3 persons in clean room suits work on the outer ring of the elevated L3 lens. The raft of camera sensors is visible through the lens.
    L3 Installation
  • A person monitors clearance of the test filter as it is moved
    Camera Shutter
  • 4 of the LSST camera filters are stored in a portable glass enclosure
    Four camera filters finished
  • The filter's surface appears violet-blue, and reflections of the fluorescent ceiling lights appear teal and yellow.
    LSST Camera r-band filter
  • The filter reflects images of the walls and ceiling of the room and has a blue-purple color
    R filter closeup
  • The circular filter appears highly reflective with a violet cast
    R filter inspection
  • 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
  • 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 worker uses a magnifying headset to work on exposed circuitry of the filter changer
    Working on the autochanger
  • 4 cameras with giant lenses point toward rafts of CCD chips suspended above
    Video cameras
  • the gantry device is a tower like robotic structure suspended over an empty grid within the cryostat
    Installing rafts in the grid
  • A person stands inside the yellow claw-shaped lifting fixture. The fixture is about 2.5 meters high by 5 meters long.
    Camera Lifting Fixture
  • Multiple colored filters are shown in different positions on the filter changer. A person is included to illustrate that the assembly is similar in height.
    Filter changing assembly
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