Some more eager visitors made their way up to SALT to meet NIR & see what all the instrument team's been up to: namely getting everything ship-shape while anxiously waiting on the delivery of the fibre cable...
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| Marsha giving the backstage tour |
Rudi's the SALT Astronomer on duty for the week ahead, Deon's our chief curiosity officer (masquerading as an all-purpose mechanical engineer) & Malcolm's a returning intern (a rintern, perhaps?) spending a few weeks of the UCT vacation looking into how we might optimise the dome conditioning process at SALT.
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| Yes - it's really in there! |
We also had to admire the very nifty enclosure that Eben's built to house the noisy compressor that keeps the instrument enclosure at -40C. With the instrument warm it seems to work superbly, but rumour has it it actually does a great job even when the compressor is running...
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| Noise-canceling compressor house |
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