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Eridanus (Annotated)
Equuleus
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Draco
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Delphinus
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Coma Berenices
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Centaurus
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Carina
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Capricornus
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Cancer
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Camelopardalis
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Caelum
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Boötes
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Rubin Surrogate Camera Move
Rubin at Night
The night sky from Tucson on 14 December about an hour after sunset. Hilo will have a similar view, while La Serena viewers should look to the northeast.
US-ELTP virtual tour at NSBP
NOIRLab Ecosystem
Touring the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope
Looking through the Kitt Peak Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope
Looking through the Kitt Peak Visitor Center 0.5-meter Telescope
Rubin BBQ celebration
Installing dark-sky lamps in Vicuña
Virgo (Annotated)
Virgo
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Volans
Antlia (Annotated)
Antlia
Apus (Annotated)
Apus
Aquarius (Annotated)
Aquarius
Aquila (Annotated)
Aquila
Ara (Annotated)
Ara
Aries (Annotated)
Auriga (Annotated)
Auriga
Aries
Group Photo with Rubin Commissioning Camera
Road after a rain storm
Inside Rubin Observatory April 2024
KPVC Gift Shop
Various observing domes at Kitt Peak
Staff relatives at Gemini South
Photographing Gemini North
Tohono O’odham Nation Visitors at Kitt Peak National Observatory
AURA Annual Meeting
Wilson Liu and Guillermo Damke in Tucson
2024 Solar Eclipse at Kitt Peak
Quantum Horizons Workshop
Don Mendes and Katy Salyk
Don Mendez and Ed Avery
Don Mendez at the Rodeo
Inside the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope
A Farewell to INGRINS
Saeko Hayashi Teaches Students Astronomy
Charity Woodrum Joins Journey Week
Cam Wipper from CFHT Visits Hilo Class
Cannon Vogel Presents at Journey Through the Universe
Alexis Acohido Visits Classes During 20th Journey Week
Subaru Telescope Engages Community at Journey Mahalo Event
Apollo Astronauts at Kitt Peak
Software Team visiting Rubin
Farewell IGRINS, Hello IGRINS-2
US-ELTP traveling exhibit at Rock the Eclipse on 8 April 2024
Don Mendes
The coated 8.4-meter mirror
LSST Camera Bon Voyage Party
LSST Camera Tours Family Day
LSST Camera Staff Tours
Solar cycle 2010–2020
McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope.
Retired Mayall Prime Focus Camera.
Inside the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope.
McMath-Pierce Heliostat
View from the top of the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope.
Top of the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope.
McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope Heliostat.
McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope Interior
2024 solar eclipse at KPNO.
Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory.
2023 Merrie Monarch Parade in Hilo.
2023 Hilo Lei Day Festival activity.
US-ELTP Virtual Tour at NDiSTEM 2023 Conference.
Finished LSST Camera
Cleaning a DECam filter.
NOIRLab astronomer Kathy Vivas gives a talk during AstroDay 2024.
University of La Serena booth AstroDay Chile 2024.
Staff at the NOIRLab booth at AstroDay Chile 2024.
2024 solar eclipse.
Activity for International Women's day in Chile.
International Women's Day gathering in Chile.
IGRINS removal from Gemini South.
Students from the University of Michigan visit Kitt Peak National Observatory
UH 88 — University of Hawai‘i 2.2-Meter Telescope.
Gemini North telescope looking up during the day.
Meet our Journey Through the Universe Team!
US-ELTP virtual tour at NSBP
Blanco 4-meter and SMARTS 1.5-meter telescopes.
Journalists and staff outside the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at night.
Nighttime view from Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Performing maintenance on DECam.
Maintenance on the DECam.
Telescope Operator Talks About Kaulana Mahina
Journey Through the Universe Co-Founders
Journey Through the Universe 2024 Ambassador Luncheon
A&G Module 1 maintenance at Gemini South.
Preparing to remove the primary mirror from Gemini South.
M1 cell disconnected from the Gemini South telescope.
Fiber optics verification at Gemini South.
Gemini South's cassegrain rotator cable carrier assembly process.
Gemini South module 3 maintenance.
Removal of Gemini South's cassegrain rotator cable carrier.
Gemini South’s primary mirror with the old coating.
Gemini South’s primary mirror before resurfacing.
Cleaning the Mirror Coating Chamber for the Gemini South Observatory.
Preparing the Gemini South primary mirror for the coating process.
Gemini South primary mirror suspended from the 50-ton crane.
Gemini South team members suiting up.
Gemini South’s primary mirror during the washing process.
Vera C. Rubin Observatory base control
Working on the cabling for the Gemini South telescope
Logo for Journey Through the Universe 2024
US-ELTP at SACNAS 2023
US-ELTP at SHPE 2023
US-ELTP NSBP 2023
Vera C. Rubin Observatory Holiday Card 2023.
Snow at Kitt Peak National Observatory.
Gemini South's mirror being prepared for coating
Windows on the Universe Group Photo
Staff for the US-ELTP Exhibit at SHPE
US-ELTP Exhibit at SHPE 2023
Roque Ruiz Carmona
ADASS 2023 Group Photo
NOIRLab mirror coating team
CMMS Team at the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope with DECam.
Crew working on the Gemini South mirror wash cart
Gemini South primary mirror.
Courtney Raich
Vera C. Rubin Observatory Auxiliary Telescope December 2023
Vera C. Rubin Observatory at sunset.
Vera C. Rubin Observatory in December 2023
Vera C. Rubin Observatory staff remove the M1M3 cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount.
Vera C. Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount.
Vera C. Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount.
Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount.
Vera C. Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount.
Vera C. Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount.
LSST camera and SLAC camera team
LSST camera
Visitors and activities at the Rubin Observatory booth at AAS243.
Rubin booth at AAS
Visitors and activities at the Rubin Observatory booth at AAS243.
Visitors and activities at the Rubin Observatory booth at AAS243.
Visitors and activities at the Rubin Observatory booth at AAS243
Kitt Peak booth
Kitt Peak float
US-ELTP virtual tour kiosk display
US-ELTP virtual tour at the NSBP Conference.
Town Hall at AAS 243
Justine Schaen at AAS 243
Ardis Herrold at AAS 243
Vini Placco and Siyi Xu at AAS 243
Justine Schaen and André-Nicolas Chené at AAS 243.
Marie Lemoine-Busserolle at AAS 243
Eric Peng at AAS
Sophie McCormick and Camila Ibarlucea at AAS 243
Robert Nikutta at the AAS 243 booth
Jesus Gonzalez
Lucerito Morales
Maritza Arias
Martin Ratcliffe
Harshitha Parashivamurthy
Franco Meconi
Lizzeth Ruiz
Katya Gozman
Andy Tzadinakis
Kenneth Julio
Mariano Dominguez
Shawn Laatsch
Teja Begari
Erin Abraham
Approval of NSF's lease of Kitt Peak
Valeria Alvarez
Bernardita Ried Guachalla
Mathias Jäger
Hernán Stockebrand
Theofanis Matsopoulos
Konstantino Polizois
Luis González
Petr Horalek
Bruno Quint
Alejandro Sommer
Anais Molina
Loreto Troncoso
Tomáš Slovinský
