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  • Rubin's commissioning camera sitting on a yellow flatbed transport cart in a large open room on the maintenance floor of the observatory. The camera itself is a long cylindrical structure laying horizontally on the cart. The left third is teal and generally larger in diameter than the right two-thirds, which is black and mostly hollow.
    ComCam on Cart
  • The white donut-shaped structure of Rubin's secondary mirror stand-in "surrogate" mass hangs suspended from a hook against the myriad of teal steel beams supporting the observatory dome. The main telescope structure is tilted on its side, such that the teal steel ring that's normally horizontal at the top cuts vertically through the left of the image. A person in a hard hat and orange safety vest supervises the activities from a raised crane basket on the right.
    Secondary Mirror Surrogate Removal
  • A view looking up from below the white donut-shaped structure of Rubin's secondary mirror stand-in "surrogate" mass, which is suspended from a crane hook near the dome ceiling. A large black circular steel structure beneath the white donut structure extends out of view to both sides. The many teal steel beams supporting the observatory dome criss-cross in the background.
    Secondary Mirror Surrogate Removal
  • A raft of black, reflective CCD sensors is being lifted into place within the cryostat
    Ninth RTM installed
  • 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
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