One of the two 8.4-m diameter
LBT mirror blanks.

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ILLUSTRATIONS

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Mechanical Design, Front	Mechanical Design, Rear	Optical Beams
Placing Cores in Casting Mold	Loading Glass	Furnace Closing
Furnace Spinning (7 revs/min)	8.4-m Mirror Blank	Polishing Mirror
Computer Controlled Polishing Tool	Assembled Structure June 2001	Elevation Bearing June 2001
Mirror Cells	Dome Interior June 2002	Dome on Mt. Graham
Testing Mirror in Cell	Prepping Mirror for Move	Moving Mirror Cell October 2003
Moving Mirror Cell October 2003	Moving Mirror October 2003	Moving Mirror October 2003
	Telescope Assembly September 2003

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LINKS

• LBT Main Page (Univ. of Arizona)

• LBT Design Animation (MPEG, 8MB)

• Live Video of Telescope Site

• Arizona Mirror Laboratory

Last modified March 2007 by R. W. O'Connell

Copyright © 2001-2003 Robert W. O'Connell. All rights reserved. Images from the University of Arizona LBT Project web site.