Road trip to Discovery Channel Telescope....

2011 was the year for the Discovery Channel Telescope road trip. Ted Dunham was very gracious in giving us a tour....

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Our first stop was the coating chamber and to see the mirror cell.

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One heck of a mirror cell....

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Another view of the cell.

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A 4.2 meter mirror cell....

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The group of us standing between the cell and coating chamber....

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The coating chamber of the 4.2m DCT mirror uses 1Megawatt of energy and $20k in aluminized coils....

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The power room, with lots of 480V.

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The azimuth spur gear motors.

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Everything is large. One heck of a gear....

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The altitude ring was locked in the horizontal position as the mirror cell and mirror were not installed....

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Say "Cheeze".... Ron is getting his picture taken next to the scope with it's mirror covers open.

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Ron's picture....

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John's picture.....

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And, my picture standing on the 4.2 meter DCT scope.....

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Don and I are climbing on the 4.2m.....

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The secondary cage of one big scope.....

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Afterwards we enjoyed the scenery.....

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As we left we snapped pictures.....

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Our view while we ate lunch in the car before going back to Overgaard.....

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