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  • Snow blankets the mountaintop under a partly cloudy daytime sky. Roads are cleared and no snow appears on the observatory buildings.
    Cerro Pachón after a winter storm
  • The telescope mount is positioned horizontally and pointing away from the open slit of the dome.
    Telescope Mount
  • A large crane holds a person in a suspended bucket in front of the Rubin telescope mount
    Cable install
  • The truck carrying the coating chamber barely clears the tunnel. A banner on the chamber reads: Von Ardenne.
    Coating Chamber Transport
  • This view of the coating chamber shape resembles the bottom half of a flying saucer. The chamber is wrapped for transport.
    Coating chamber at summit.
  • A truck carrying a space ship-like silver object is traveling along a wet highway at night. The structure spans both lanes of the road.
    Coating Chamber Transport
  • A video demonstrating the movement of black, fan-shaped mirror covers that expand and retract
    Mirror cover test
  • The white, domed enclosure of the Rubin Auxiliary Telescope
    Summit May 2022
  • Brightly lit monitors fill a room seen through a glass wall
    Summit May 2022
  • View of Rubin Observatory with a yellow crane next to it
    Summit May 2022
  • A group of about 20 people stand behind the honeycombed glass surface of Rubin's 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary mirror.
    Mirror Fabrication
  • The observatory site showing the main and auxiliary telescope domes, silhouetted against a twilight sky containing the Moon.
    Moon over Rubin ObservatoryRubin at twilight
  • A large gold metal ring surrounds the LSST Camera focal plane
    Camera entrance lens
  • large metal cases housing capacitors line the track rails along the base of the telescope mount
    Capacitor bank
  • The dome appears silver, a contrast to the white of the rest of the observatory's structures.
    Rubin Observatory Dome
  • The Rubin Observatory telescope, a large, cylindrical teal and gray metal structure, is surrounded by tools and equipment.
    Rubin Observatory telescope under construction
  • A person monitors clearance of the test filter as it is moved
    Camera Shutter
  • The luminous Milky Way and hundreds of stars stretch across the sky behind the silhouette of Rubin Observatory.
    Milky Way above Rubin Observatory
  • close up of the observatory building, bright white against a deep blue daytime sky
    Rubin Observatory
  • the observatory is built into two levels at the summit, with the service building extending to the level below the dome.
    Drone View of Rubin Observatory
  • Rubin Observatory is shaped like a boot. The dome forms the "ankle", while the long service building extends outwards to an angled "toe".
    Drone View of Rubin Observatory
  • view inside the service facility showing the mirror mock up and the commissioning camera amidst many other pieces of equipment and storage containers
    Integration and maintenance area
  • The silver cylindrical mirror coating chamber
    Coating Chamber
  • a row of three large monitors with colorful displays are above a row of smaller desktop monitors in a darkened room
    Control Room
  • pink clouds drift above a golden horizon beyond the observatory
    Rubin Observatory at Twilight
  • Daytime image of the observatory building taken from the near base of the service building. The initial outer layers of the dome are in place.
    Rubin Observatory in March 2021
  • close up view of Rubin Observatory shows the dome atop one end of the elongated service building.
    Rubin Observatory
  • side view of the base of the telescope mount assembly inside the dome
    Telescope Mount
  • 3 large cranes are being used to work on the dome
    Rubin from Above
  • the cylindrical commissioning camera assembly with its attached refrigeration pathfinder unit undergoes testing inside the summit facility
    Camera clean room with commissioning camera
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