Telescope Mount

1 /  Telescope mount azimuth track segment at Ingersoll Machine Tools facility in Rockford, IL. Image credit: Ingersoll Machine Tools 2 /  Transport of telescope mount azimuth disk segment at Ingersoll Machine Tools facility in Rockford, IL. Image credit: Ingersoll Machine Tools 3 /  Telescope mount azimuth disk segment at Dynasty Fabrication in Roseville, MI. Image credit: Dynasty Fab 4 /  Telescope mount concrete pit with spring boxes at Ingersoll Machine Tools facility in Rockford, IL. Image credit: Ingersoll Machine Tools 5 /  Electronic Bench Technician Austin Everman checking wires inside server cabinets at the University of Arizona Tech Park. Image credit: Damien Jemison, Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation 6 /  Cable wires inside server cabinet at the University of Arizona Tech Park. Image credit: Damien Jemison, Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation 7 /  Construction of the Ingersoll Machine Tools assembly hall for factory integration and acceptance testing of the Giant Magellan Telescope mount. Image credit: Ingersoll Machine Tools 8 /  Principal Opto-Mechanical Control Systems Engineer Trupti Ranka moving an air handler unit – fourteen air handler units utilizing CO2 based refrigeration are mounted to the interior of each mirror support system to circulate the air. Image credit: Damien Jemison, Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation 9 /  Single actuator – one of 170 pneumatic actuators that lift and shape the primary mirror through applied force. Image credit: Damien Jemison, Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation 10 /  Interior of steel weldment used for the mirror support structure prototype at CAID Industries in Arizona. Image credit: Damien Jemison, Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation 11 /  Triple actuator – one of 170 pneumatic actuators that lift and shape the primary mirror through applied force. Image credit: Damien Jemison, Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation 12 /  Primary mirror support system prototype at the University of Arizona Tech Park. Senior Control Systems Engineer Trupti Ranka is shown (right) running testing on the prototype. Image credit: Damien Jemison, Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation 13 /  Device Control Software Engineer Tomas Krasuski adjusting a triple actuator inside the primary mirror support system prototype at the University of Arizona Tech Park. Image credit: Damien Jemison, Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation 14 /  Testing of the opening and closing mechanisms on the first of seven mirror covers for the telescope. Image credit: OHB Italia SpA 15 /  First of seven mirror covers for the telescope. In just over two minutes, the covers will deploy and retract in unison to protect the mirrors when they’re not in use. Image credit: OHB Italia SpA 16 /  Principal Opto-Mechanical Control Systems Engineer Trupti Ranka adjusting an actuator in the primary mirror support system prototype at the University of Arizona Tech Park. Image credit: Damien Jemison, Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation