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Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope
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Submillimeter telescope dish
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Large Binocular Telescope building
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Submillimeter Telescope Dish Closeup
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Laser oscillator controls
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Valves aplenty
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SMT beamsplitter and receiver cryocooler
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Plaque on the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope
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Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope dome interior
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VATT spectrograph, in testing phase
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Large Binocular Telescope, as seen from the 'Pope Balcony' at the VATT
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Boom, Caleb, and Tom take a break in the VATT breakroom
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Looking up the building's skirt
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The cable running down the center is a fiber optic bundle that will eventually supply the PEPSI spectrograph with light
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Cable routing
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Rotating instrument mounts
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One of two 8.4m primary mirrors, with tertiary mirror above
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LBT in the vertical stowed position
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MODS spectrograph being filled with cryogen
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Cables and ducts beneath the primary mirrors
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Secondary mirror in the background and Large Binocular Camera (blue channel) in the foreground.
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View out the side of the dome. Mt. Graham is 10,720 feet.
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Rotating the LBT down to fill cryogen tanks
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Primary mirror with people for scale, rotated to the horizon