Spectro1 and Corrector Installation: April 30, 1999

The weather was favorable today for a photo shoot and lots of work (I had about 1/2" of hail at my house--on the east side of the mountains-- but the site and Cloudcroft didn't get any). French Leger and Steve Bastian (both with FNL), as well as Jon Brinkmann/APO and Glenn Federwitz and Carlos Gonzalez (both FNL), pitched in for the task at hand.

The sky was clear and the sun bright, so the photos are plagued with contrast problems and light spikes.

As the telescope is tipped up to zenith, the Spectro1 eases past the cable mast and is ever so close to the wind screen mounts.     We noted today that when engineering a telescope, its always good to hear, "gee, that is really close," versus anything else!

	French, Carlos Gonzalez (center), and Glen Federwitz (right) talk over the movement of the telescope to zenith, as well as that pesky wind screen.   The blue camera of the spectrograph can be seen. The guider electrnoics are seen hanging from the bottom of the spectrograph (grey box with white duct tape).

Our consulting engineers, incremental to Jim Annis' success, are junior engineer's Christopher Annis (l) and Marissa Annis (r). Note how Marissa is chomping at the bit to help!   French is shown working on the computer out on the pier. Note the ergonomically-correct seating--and is that a peep show under there?   We thought it was rather whimsical that photography hoods came into fashion at the turn of the century and now we've brought it into high-tech astronomy at the new millenium. Good things are hard to replace.

Variety of views with Spectro1, corrector, and plate cartridge mounted and rotating under the telescope.