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Rubin Observatory

We have a telescope!🤩

Last week, summit staff successfully installed Rubin Observatory's combined primary/tertiary mirror.

With all three mirrors & the commissioning camera in place, we officially—for the first time in 15 years of construction—have a complete telescope!🥳

Watch the installation time-lapse at youtu.be/6EWUpZG1pAM

Rubin's telescope structure, pointing upward. The telescope is made of teal steel support beams and is shaped like a vase, with a flat top and rounded flat bottom.
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Rubin Observatory

This isn't the telescope's final form though! This iteration has the smaller 144-megapixel commissioning camera used for testing.

Rubin's 3200-megapixel LSST Camera, which will #CaptureTheCosmos in science operations, will be installed early next year.

Congratulations to the #RubinTeam on this milestone, and major thanks to our incredible summit staff for all of their hard work! 🥳

Next step: get this telescope on-sky 🌌

A dozen people in orange construction vests and hard hats pose in front of Rubin's telescope, with the primary mirror visible as a circular black structure on its teal cell positioned underneath the rest of the teal telescope structure.
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@VRubinObs I really can't wait to see the images that start coming back when you are all set up.

Albert Cardona

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Kind of concerned the mirror was transported unprotected? Tell me there was a plastic film or something?

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