Often you just need to take note of the small scenes that make up daily life. Over the years I have made an effort to photograph these scenes, there is so much richness in our everyday existence that too many do not notice…
An electrician’s tool bag, complete with lockout tag
A pile of 3/8″ air hose in the supply room
Fuses, relays, and contactors in the Keck 2 telescope control system
I/O cards and field wiring in the Keck 2 local controls PLC
Analog ammeters indicate the motor current
Bins full of stainless steel machine screws in the supply room
The facility cooling lines that supply cold water to the K2AO electronics vault.
A section of the whiffle tree that supports each Keck primary segment
Tools and drawing lay on the table in the welding shop
A bank of relays form the safety interlock system for the telescope.
A row of circuit breakers in the Keck 2 computer room
Racks of wire available for use in the Keck summit electronics lab
Spools of wire await use in the electronics shop
A scatter of tools at CSO
A tiny portion of the extensive cabling that connects the various elements of the Keck Interferometer
A sample of the control wiring and circuitry in the Servo Amplifier Assembly
Bins of bolts in the Keck supply room
A handheld radio used at Keck for daily communication.
The Nasmyth Deck tool set in the Keck 2 dome
A dense bit of temporary wiring in the Keck 2 SAA cabinet
Part of the Keck 2 logic board, this PCB assembly controls the various control and safety logic for the Keck 2 telescope.
The new telescope control system servers take up much of a rack
A Keck primary mirror segment jacked up out of the array
The transformers for the Keck 2 telescope servo drives
A tangle of cables for the Keck 2 optical bench subsystem
Looking at the back of a segment with the radial support removed
A collection of keys
The many cables needed to operate the Keck 2 telescope thread through the azimuth wrap.
The usual mess littering a workbench in the Keck summit electronics lab in the midst of a project
Patching in an experimental control system to move the Keck 1 telescope, one step closer to a major upgrade.
Hard hats ready for use just outside the Keck 1 dome
A set of tools ready for use on the Keck 1 nasmyth deck
Multiple cables enter the Keck 2 Adaptive Optics bench.
A distribution video amplifier built around a THS7324
An assortment of cable pass through the Keck 2 telescope elevation cable wrap
The control panel for the telescope hydraulic bearing system pumps
A pile of power drills await use on a shelf in the supply room
Electronics test leads and patch cables hanging from the rack in the Keck summit electronics lab
Author: Andrew
An electrical engineer, amateur astronomer, and diver, living and working on the island of Hawaiʻi.
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