On August 12 we will start the Wide Field Upgrade for the HET. The first task will be to remove the outer ring of mirrors plus a few extras until we reach our storage capacity of 46 mirrors.
Hobby-Eberly Telescope
The largest optical telescope in North America
Here is a link to my Flickr site, with some photos from today’s mirror removal activity:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40151551@N02/sets/72157635078464196/