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    • Golden skies and colorful distant mountain ridges form a backdrop for Rubin Observatory after sunset on a clear evening.
      Sunset view of Rubin Observatory
    • A view from the base of the telescope mount looking up through the open dome slit into a clear blue sky
      Rubin Telescope Mount with Open Dome
    • The mount is in a vertical stow position and surrounded by construction and safety equipment and storage containers.
      Telescope Mount in Dome
    • Daytime image of the observatory building taken from the near base of the service building. The initial outer layers of the dome are in place.
      Rubin Observatory in March 2021
    • The filter's surface appears violet-blue, and reflections of the fluorescent ceiling lights appear teal and yellow.
      LSST Camera r-band filter
    • The filter reflects images of the walls and ceiling of the room and has a blue-purple color
      R filter closeup
    • The circular filter appears highly reflective with a violet cast
      R filter inspection
    • A view of the dome of Rubin Observatory atop one end of its elongated service building, which is built into the rocky summit.
      Vera C. Rubin Observatory summit image view
    • close up view of Rubin Observatory shows the dome atop one end of the elongated service building.
      Rubin Observatory
    • side view of the base of the telescope mount assembly inside the dome
      Telescope Mount
    • 3 large cranes are being used to work on the dome
      Rubin from Above
    • the cylindrical commissioning camera assembly with its attached refrigeration pathfinder unit undergoes testing inside the summit facility
      Camera clean room with commissioning camera
    • Side view of the Observatory dome and service building. A large crane is being used to work on the dome.
      Rubin Observatory Under Construction
    • A grayscale image of a woman looking through the eyepiece of a tabletop instrument, taken using the LSST Camera focal plane. The woman has short hair and black glasses. Horizontal and vertical lines denote the edges of the camera's 189 CCD chips, which are arranged in a roughly square shape with its corners cut off.
      Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane Build 166
    • A grayscale image of a Romanesco broccoli taken using the LSST Camera focal plane. The broccoli has larger details and very small details, to showcase the capability of the camera. Horizontal and vertical lines denote the edges of the camera's 189 CCD chips, which are arranged in a roughly square shape with its corners cut off.
      Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane Build 164
    • Clusters of cables and colored lights on a panel illustrate data activity at the Base Facility in La Serena.
      Dedicated data links
    • A construction crane is in position to apply the external cladding to the observatory dome.
      Enclosing the Dome
    • Drone view looks down through the open shutters of the observatory dome. The dome exterior is only partially completed.
      Drone View of the Open Dome
    • The cylindrical mirror coating chamber is to the left of the mock up M1M3 mirror
      Maintenance floor
    • The ComCam main lens reflects images from the room. Light coming through the lens is altered to a yellowish hue.
      Rubin Commissioning Camera
    • 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 people in head-to-toe white clean room suits sit beneath the LSST Camera focal plane. The focal plane is a blue and purple reflective surface inset inside a silver metal ring. Faint criss-crossing lines denote individual CCD chips. One 3-by-3 CCD chip collection, called a CCD raft, is still lowered from the rest of the focal plane as it's being installed.
      Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane Build 137
    • The teal dome structure of the observatory and the smaller silver dome of the AuxTel jut into a darkening blue sky, as sunset reddens the rocks of the mountain.
      Rubin Observatory Under Starry Skies
    • A view of the completed system, tilted. Persons in the room provide scale, showing the system is about a tall as a person
      Filter exchange system
    • Two pairs of human legs extend from beneath the suspended system, which has a golden, cylindrical housing
      Filter exchange
    • The sun sets behind the service building in multicolored sky filled with thin clouds and a contrail.
      Rubin Observatory with Wispy Clouds
    • A raft of black, reflective CCD sensors is being lifted into place within the cryostat
      Ninth RTM installed
    • 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
    • The metallic CCD housing and mount reflect shades of blue, neon green and red.
      Camera CCD
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