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Tonight is the Vernon Lecture You can still register. Click the link below.
The MCAO telescope assembly is under construction at DFM. The images above show a similar instrument at the Observatorio Astronomico Nacional in Baja California. This telescope is part of the Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II)
The MCAO telescope has arrived!
The telescope fork mount under construction at DFM!
Telescope with Dec Drive disk attached to Fork and Center section
The primary mirror cell
Richard Neel working on the primary mirror cell
RA secondary drive assembly
The Mirror covers
More pictures of raw parts here.
Secondary mirror fine focus control
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