LSST Primary/Tertiary Mirror Casting, 29 March 2008
Steward Observatory Mirror Lab, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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01 Outside the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab
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02 Pierre and Rocky Kolb
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03 LSST 8.4 meter mirror is cast in rotating oven
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04 Pierre and Roger Blandford in front of oven
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05 Pierre and Rigi
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06 Pierre holding a piece of E6 Borosilicate glass used for the LSST mirror
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07 Rigi looking through a glass chunk
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08 The rotating oven contains 20 metric tons of glass
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09 Below the oven
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10 Installation of the hexagonal cores
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11 The cores are installed awaiting the glass loading
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13 Mirror polishing
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14 Polishing detail 1
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15 Polishing detail 2
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16 Grantry to lift the mirror for cleaning
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17 Collations under the optical test tower
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18 Looking up at the test tower
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19 Polishing of test mirror
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20 Steward Lab accomplishments
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21 Charles Simonyi talks to us about his visit to the International Space Station
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22 Simonyi in Soyuz
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23 Charles uplifting talk
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24 PRS and friends
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25 Visit to David and Wendee Levy's home
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26 Pierre and David look on Obadiah
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27 David at Obadiah 12in camera
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28 Rigi who is deathly afraid of dogs pets The Beagle
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29 David and Pierre with David's first instrument
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