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  • The LSST Camera team prepares to cool down the camera and conduct electro-optical testing
  • The LSST Camera team prepares to cool down the camera and conduct electro-optical testing
  • The LSST Camera team prepares to cool down the camera and conduct electro-optical testing
  • The LSST Camera team prepares to cool down the camera and conduct electro-optical testing
  • LSST camera and SLAC camera team
  • LSST camera and SLAC camera team
  • LSST camera at SLAC
  • LSST camera at SLAC
  • LSST camera and SLAC camera team
  • LSST camera at SLAC
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 grayscale image of a woman looking through the eyepiece of a tabletop instrument, taken using the LSST Camera focal plane. The woman has short hair and black glasses. Horizontal and vertical lines denote the edges of the camera's 189 CCD chips, which are arranged in a roughly square shape with its corners cut off.
    Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane Build 166
  • A grayscale image of a Romanesco broccoli taken using the LSST Camera focal plane. The broccoli has larger details and very small details, to showcase the capability of the camera. Horizontal and vertical lines denote the edges of the camera's 189 CCD chips, which are arranged in a roughly square shape with its corners cut off.
    Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane Build 164
  • The tiled blue focal plane of the LSST Camera, viewed nearly edge on and from slightly below. The focal plane is made of 189 CCD chips arranged in a roughly square shape with its corners cut off. The focal plane is set within a shiny metal ring, which the other components of the camera will be attached to.
    Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane
  • Two people in head-to-toe white clean room suits sit beneath the LSST Camera focal plane. The focal plane is a blue and purple reflective surface inset inside a silver metal ring. Faint criss-crossing lines denote individual CCD chips. One 3-by-3 CCD chip collection, called a CCD raft, is still lowered from the rest of the focal plane as it's being installed.
    Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane Build 137
  • 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
  • A top down view looking at the incomplete LSST Camera focal plane. At the center is a tiled metal frame that looks like a 4 by 4 checkerboard, with empty squares. The lines making up the checkered pattern are a light copper color and run diagonally from upper left to lower right, and from lower left to upper right. The checkered pattern is inside a metal cylinder structure with various metal pipes around the outside. All of the metal is extremely clean and shiny.
    Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane Build
  • 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
  • Two people in head-to-toe white clean room suits stand next to a cylindrical metal contraption with wires and cables sticking out and looping around at various angles. The people are looking at a computer screen that is mostly obscured by the metal cylinder. The surrounding white room gives an overall sterile feel to the scene.
    LSST Camera Cleanroom - Cryostat
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