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Filter wheel and main camera
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Neatened up wires
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The fine guidance system: the tip-tilt mirror and a focus actuator for the tracking camera
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Installing the fine guidance camera
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Fully assembled box
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Leeav builds another box. For the batteries.
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Two telescopes. The main one on the right, and the collimator telescope to make a fake star
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John models with the telescope
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The telescope
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Installing the (bottom half of) the inner frame into the middle frame
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Installed inner frame. The middle frame, like the outer frame, looks like a boat
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Test fitting the battery box
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Assorted parrots act as greeters at the zoo
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Some birds. Oh, and Ivan.
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People with phones photographing weird animals
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Eagles with no cage
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I ended up with as many photographs of animals
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Pelicans being fed
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The CIP arrives
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Our flight engineer: Dell.
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Inspecting the CIP
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Installation by lifting the outer frame over top.
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Yellow safety stands
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Wrestling into place
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New mirror cell
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Rotary/tilt stage to aim the collimator
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Thermal speculation