In the Dark

Here’s a video showing the arrival and installation of the Top End Assembly (TEA) of the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the Vera C Rubin Observatory site on top of Cerro Pachón in Chile. The Vera C Rubin Observatory was previously known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope but was subsequently renamed in honour of the late Vera Rubin.

It’s fantastic to see this project progressing to this stage. I have been around long enough to remember when LSST, as it then was, seemed to be in the impossibly distant future (along with e.g. JWST). The fact that it is now really happening makes me feel extremely old! It’s still great to see though.

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