For this week we have two priorities: 1) we are in the process of cleaning up the upper and lower hex, specifically the lower and upper rails that the old tracker rides on and 2) we are putting in the VIRUS cross support structures. This cross support structures are really the first (of many) pieces of the Wide Field Upgrade equipment to be installed at the HET!
Hobby-Eberly Telescope
The largest optical telescope in North America
Some video from today’s first lift of one of the three VSS cross-support structures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40151551@N02/9956929386/
A link to a series of photographs of the VSS cross-support lift:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40151551@N02/9957011586/in/set-72157635078464196
Wonderful! Thanks so much for the pictures. First piece of WFU going on the telescope needs to be documented.