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Malcolm Arrives at the Gemini telescope work area.
Here at the summit the unpacking begins and the AO system's health is checked as soon as possible. Luckily, the system survived the journey without a hitch.
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Malcolm Arrives at the Gemini telescope work area.
Here at the summit the unpacking begins and the AO system's health is checked as soon as possible. Luckily, the system survived the journey without a hitch.
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Malcolm Hard at work with the system tests on their way.
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Hokupa'a in the testing room at the summit.
It is now ready to go on the telescope.
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The Gemini crew removing a balast weight assembly from the instrument port.
Here room is being made for Hokupa'a.
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The Curvature wavefront sensor installed to assist in the tuning of the telecope optics.
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The Curvature wavefront sensor's high tech light baffle : cardboard and duct tape.
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The CCD camera of the Curvature wavefront sensor.
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Wheeling Hokupa'a up to the telecope through the halls of the Gemini building.
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Waiting for the elevator to come...
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The ballast module is in the elevator, about to be brought to the dome.
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The Dome crane is attached to Hokupa'a to move the ballast into position on the mounting platform to attach to the back end of the telescope.
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Hokupa'a is taking off !!!
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Hokupa'a is flying in the dome.
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Don't drop Hokupa'a !
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Looking at the back of the telescope, the ballast weight module will mount to this empty instrument port.
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Hokupa'a is being mounted to the instrument port.
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The infrared camera (QUIRC) is attached to the bottom of the ballast weight module hosting Hokupa'a.
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Note the tight clearance between the camera dewar and the ballast module frame.
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Same as above, different angle.
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Quirc and camera controller cabled up.
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Hokupa'a is now fully installed and waiting for sky photons.
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After a successfull night, John, Dan, Buzz, Tom, Francois and Dan celebrate with the "shaka".
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Midway through the run, a flatter, higher stroke bimorph mirror was installed and improved the image quality. Its interferogram is shown on this picture.
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Another successfull night ending in smiles.
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More celebration with beer in the morning.
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The voltages of the actuators are displayed on screen while the loop is closed.
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2 bottles of Champagne for celebration and 2 items that made it possible (a screwdriver and a wrench).