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1) Seeing the 10 story tall/huge telescope in person, in all it’s glory, getting to watch it move, and getting to watch it being fixed.

This is my last night here at the LBT and I can’t say I’ve ever learned as much about telescopes in my life as I have in this one week of working with them, hands on, for 12 hrs a day.ВP I am so very excited for this summer to come, when I will be staying here from May-July to try and become very well knowledged in the workings of the LBT and maybe get to experience some new instruments coming on board.

So far we have dealt with a slew (haha, observers joke) of problems.ВP Initially LUCIFER was not communicating with the telescope system and we had to restart the whole thing (which takes a deal of time).ВPВP THEN we dealt with INSANE winds, consistently gusting at 30+ mph and shaking the telescope so much that we were oscillating in declination by 20-40 seconds!ВP And currently we are restarting the system AGAIN because the blue side of the LBT is having shutter problems, where the system thinks the shutter is open, but it has become partially stuck, and so we are only getting an exposure on 1/4 of the chips.ВP If this gets resolved in a decent amount of time, we might be able to get back on track and still have another 3 hours of observing before sunrise and flats need to be taken.ВP We also dealt with major focusing issues on the red side at the end of the run.

#4)The inside of the LBT living/working area. It’s a full 360 from entrance to exit. I walk from the edge of the control room at sunset, into the kitchen area, and then all the way around the living quarters, back to the control room. (video was cut @1.5 mins, so it does not show the whole circle. The door at the end of the shot says “Quiet, Day and Night Sleepers, DO NOT LET DOORS SLAM”, which leads back around to the control room.) ВPВP

#3)Clip of the engineer trying to remove the condensation build up on LUCIFER the 1st night at the LBT. He’s standing just over the left 8.4m mirror.

#2)A rare view, getting the walk on the LBT. Showing the right and left mirror, the secondary mirror and instruments, and the base of the telescope.

#1) 1.5 min video of the road leading up to the LBT. It was very sharp curves (sometimes more than 180 degrees) on a very narrow road for many many miles, while climbing to 10,000 ft.

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