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  • 2024 Rubin Community Workshop group photo
  • Two staff in white onesie suits stand on a hexagonal platform with yellow railings, supervising the placement of the cover on Rubin's 3.5-meter secondary mirror. The cover is a silver steel disk with a large hole in the middle suspended from cables attached to a crane out of view.
    Preparing the secondary mirror for installation
  • An engineer in protective gear works from the central hole in the secondary mirror. They are wearing a white onesie suit and protective gear, and holding an instrument. The secondary mirror is sitting on a thick support cell, which is surrounded by a hexagonal platform with yellow railings.
    Preparing the secondary mirror for installation
  • View of the Rubin maintenance floor, full of many of the telescope components waiting to be installed. At front and to the right, the 3.5-meter secondary mirror lies flat on a hexagonal platform with yellow railings. Two engineers in white onesie suits and protective gear work at the mirror. At back, the 8.4-meter main mirror sits protected beneath the large silver coating chamber. To the left, the commissioning camera faces lengthwise away from the viewer, sitting on a yellow steel support.
    Preparing the secondary mirror for installation
  • Rubin Lithograph
  • LSST Camera Arrives at Rubin Observatory
  • LSST Camera Arrives at Rubin Observatory
  • LSST Camera Arrives at Rubin Observatory
  • Drone view of Rubin Observatory on top of its summit site on Cerro Pachón against a sunset scene. The observatory building is an angular silver dome on top of a long building extending to the left. The observatory sits against a yellow and orange sky and spotty gray clouds, with rolling purpley mountain ridges fading into the background.
    Rubin Observatory at sunset in May 2024
  • Drone view of Rubin Observatory on top of its summit site on Cerro Pachón against a sunset scene. The observatory building is an angular silver dome on top of a long building extending to the right. The observatory sits against purple gray cloudy sky, with sunlight shining from the left. Rolling mountain ridges ranging from brown nearby to greenish gray further away.
    Rubin Observatory at sunset in May 2024
  • Drone view of Rubin Observatory on top of its summit site on Cerro Pachón against a sunset scene. The observatory building is an angular silver dome on top of a long building extending to the right. The observatory sits against the Chilean desert mountain landscape under a cloudy sky. The nearby mountains are brown, with sunlight illuminating them, while the farther mountains appear more blue.
    Rubin Observatory at sunset in May 2024
  • Drone view of Rubin Observatory on top of its summit site on Cerro Pachón at sunset. The observatory building is an angular silver dome on top of a long building extending to the right. The observatory sits against purple blue mountains, and the dome glints pink in the setting sunlight
    Rubin Observatory at sunset in May 2024
  • Drone view of Rubin Observatory on top of its summit site on Cerro Pachón against a sunset scene. The observatory building is an angular silver dome on top of a long building extending to the left. The observatory sits against a yellow and orange sky and gray clouds, with rolling mountain ridges in varying shades of purple and pink fading into the background.
    Rubin Observatory at sunset in May 2024
  • Drone view of Rubin Observatory on top of its summit site on Cerro Pachón against a sunset scene. The observatory building is an angular silver dome on top of a long building extending to the right. The observatory sits against firey orange mountains under a gray sky. The dome glints a dazzling orange from the setting sun.
    Rubin Observatory at sunset in May 2024
  • Drone view of Rubin Observatory on top of its summit site on Cerro Pachón against a sunset scene. The observatory building is an angular silver dome on top of a long building extending to the left. The observatory sits against a yellow and pink sky and gray clouds, with rolling mountain ridges in varying shades of blue fading into the background.
    Rubin Observatory at sunset in May 2024
  • Drone view of Rubin Observatory on top of its summit site on Cerro Pachón against a sunset scene. The observatory building is an angular silver dome on top of a long building extending toward us and slightly to the left. The observatory sits against a yellow and pink sky and gray clouds, with rolling mountain ridges in varying shades of blue fading into the background.
    Rubin Observatory at sunset in May 2024
  • The car-sized LSST Camera is lifted above the floor inside Rubin Observatory, surrounded by about 8 people in construction protective clothing. The camera looks like a super-sized version of the lens portion of a handheld DSLR or similar, with a 5.5-foot diameter lens caps displaying the Rubin and SLAC National Lab logos.
    LSST Camera Arrives at Rubin Observatory
  • 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
  • Top view of Rubin’s 8.4-meter mirror with its reflective coating applied. The mirror is positioned in front of and just below the similarly sized round silver coating chamber, and the coating chamber is reflected in the surface of the mirror.
    The coated 8.4-meter mirror
  • View of Rubin’s 8.4-meter mirror with its reflective coating applied. The mirror is positioned in front of and just below the similarly sized round silver coating chamber. Six people in white coveralls, haircovers, and face masks are standing above and behind the mirror, raising their hands in the air, 3 on the left side of the mirror, and 3 on the right. One similarly dressed person is popping out of the hole in the center of the mirror.
    The coated 8.4-meter mirror
  • Rubin's Unique Mirror Design
  • Rubin's Unique Mirror Design
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