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Photo albums associated with engineering proceedures
   Transport from Steward Observatory to the mountain
   Transport from the Common building to the summit, and into the telescope chamber

2013
  April 4, 2013:  Stuff in Jill's barn
  MMT April 6:  Stuff in the MMT Cabinet in the common building
  May 2013:   Lab work on new slit mechanism before the engineering run

2011
  MMT January 29:  Set up in the common building, working on MAESTRO
  MMT March 27:  Injection optics area photos
  MMT November 9-15:  Work in the common building, and Engineering Run
  MMT November 28:  Day trip to remove guide camera, work on spectrograph

2010
  MMT March:  Snow
  MMT June 19-24   Photos of parts
  MMT June 24:  MAESTRO is stowed in the Common Building
  Lab  October:  Photos of Alignment Frame
  MMT December 8:  Trip to check out storage options;  water damage in Common building

2009
  Lab June 30:  working on collimation downtown
  December 8:  Mounting MAESTRO at the MMT
  December 11:  At the MMT

2008
  MMT April 23:  Observing trip
  MMT July 23: Observing trip
  Lab August 4: Cart and lab set-up

2007
   April:  Mounting grating in cell at the Mirror Lab CMM
   Lab May 2:  Lens can
   Lab  May 2:  Mounting the prism
   Lab  June 24:  Calibration mirror and electronics
   Lab July:  Construction
   July 23:  Lab and trip to the mountain
   Lab  October 21:  Space frame
   Lab October 29:  Mounting lens cell
   MMT October 29:  Fit check baffle; new floor in the telescope chamber
   Lab  November 11:  grating cell
   Lab  November 21:  Working on flexure, grating cell
   November:  MMT Run
   Trip to the mountain, Dec. 2

2006
    Lab:  Pulltest
    April:  Space frame, grating cell
    June:  Lab
    November 28:  Mounting lens can

2005
    January:  3D cad drawings
    May:  at the CMM machine, mounting lenses;  jigs for alignment
    May:  MMT
    June:  Visit to Flex Rig at NOAO
    July:  at the CMM machine, mounting lenses
    July:  CMM machine, spectrograph frame construction
    July 25-26:  Fit check of cart and spectrograph structure at the MMT, after the fire
    August 2:  Sylgard lenses in lens cell

2004
    July 13:  Damage to lens by ZCR
    July:  Visit to ZCR
    October:  Damage to lens 4 by ZCR
    October:  Damage to the prism by ZCR
    MMT f/9 top box

2003
    April:  Delivery of dewar and controller at ITL
    June:  Trip to the mountain
    Calcium fluoride blanks

2002
    July 15:  Trip to OCIW to learn lens mounting techniques
    October 14:  Trip to OCIW; IMACS in the lab
   

Last update:  June 7, 2013