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| The AAT dome. |
The view from the AAT's catwalk. |
Simon, David and Eelco on the catwalk. |
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| Sunset. |
Clear skies. |
A gamaroo. |
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| The AAT. |
...again... |
...and again. |
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| The top end with 2dF. |
One of the plates with the fibre positioner robot. |
A configured plate. |
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| ...again. |
A plate being reconfigured. |
It's still going. |
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| Some parked fibres. |
The robot doing its thing. |
The gripper in action. |
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| A movie of 2dF tumbling and the robot in action. |
The old gripper. |
A fibre button stuck to an allen key. One can see the prism,
button and fibre going off to the right. |
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| AAOmega in the Coudé room. |
The dichroic and gratings of the two arms. |
A VPH grating. |
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| Things are going well in the control room. |
Happy faces all round. |
Matt and Jon, redshifting and looking... err... thrilled? |
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| Heath in control of AAOmega. |
Control room ambiance. |
The redshifting code at work. |
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| Peder redshifting hard. |
Rob is taking the wide-field approach to new heights. |
The infamous monkey bum sandwiches (night lunch). |
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| Hannah P. of E. today became the lucky punter to
redshift the fifty thousandth galaxy. "It was an incredible moment and I'm
still a little overwhelmed by it all," said the young student who
enjoys reading the phone book and classifying sky spectra in her spare
time. "I was so excited I didn't really know what to say when Kevin
[Rudd] called." Hannah said she would be taking a day off and have
an extra monkey bum sandwich to celebrate the occasion. |
