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Originally Posted by h0ughy
WOW what an honour and privilege - congratulations did they question you when you came back through customs with a scope like that in the suitcase?
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Hi Houghy,
The guy that showed us around was a Keck veteran, a really lovely bloke, Bill Henley, one of the places we went to was the area that houses the spare hexagonal mirror segments. Two of the attached images show these segments standing up on edge in cradles. There is a technician working on one of them, note the oxygen tubes connected to his nose. I sussed out Bill about taking one of the spare segments with me, to knock up a scope around it, but thought it might be a bit of a struggle as hand luggage on Qantas, apparently each segment is worth one million bucks.
Nice image of a very large and expensive infrared camera, makes the 450D seem pretty inadequate.
Trevor
PS The sixth image is from the tunnel below the Keck's and is of the apparartus that is used to connect the two telescopes and use them as an interferometer.