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    • The tiled blue focal plane of the LSST Camera, viewed nearly edge on and from slightly below. The focal plane is made of 189 CCD chips arranged in a roughly square shape with its corners cut off. The focal plane is set within a shiny metal ring, which the other components of the camera will be attached to.
      Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane
    • Two pairs of human legs extend from beneath the suspended system, which has a golden, cylindrical housing
      Filter exchange
    • The glass lens of the huge LSST Camera inside its black carbon fiber casing. The curvature of the lens extends above the rim of the black casing, like a glass of water about to overflow. Four people in white head-to-toe clean room suits stand in a circle in the background of this white room.
      The LSST Camera Lens is here!
    • A person in a full head-to-toe white clean room suit works beneath one of the LSST Camera CCD rafts suspended from a metal support. The CCD raft contains nine CCD chips arranged in a square. The chips are oriented to face the work space below. The image is focused on the CCD raft, and the person standing behind is slightly blurred and out of focus.
      LSST 1st Science Raft
    • Secondary Mirror (M2) coating in 2019
    • Timelapse of secondary mirror coating
    • a worker uses a magnifying headset to work on exposed circuitry of the filter changer
      Working on the autochanger
    • A top down view looking at the incomplete LSST Camera focal plane. At the center is a tiled metal frame that looks like a 4 by 4 checkerboard, with empty squares. The lines making up the checkered pattern are a light copper color and run diagonally from upper left to lower right, and from lower left to upper right. The checkered pattern is inside a metal cylinder structure with various metal pipes around the outside. All of the metal is extremely clean and shiny.
      Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane Build
    • M2 testing
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