It's probably a surprise to no one, but telescopes have a lot of reflective surfaces just begging for selfies! 🤳
This #SelfieSunday, take a browse through some of our recent favorites from our #RubinTeam 📸
About these selfies:
1: The CNRS-IN2P3 filter team in an LSST Camera filter
2: Selfie in the 144-megapixel detector of the Rubin Commissioning Camera
3: LSST Camera Team's Travis Lange in a camera filter
4: Rubin staff in the telescope's secondary mirror
This isn't the telescope's final form though! This iteration has the smaller 144-megapixel commissioning camera used for testing.
Rubin's 3200-megapixel LSST Camera, which will #CaptureTheCosmos in science operations, will be installed early next year.
Congratulations to the #RubinTeam on this milestone, and major thanks to our incredible summit staff for all of their hard work! 🥳
Next step: get this telescope on-sky 🌌
There's no science without people!
Introducing #RubinVoices, a series featuring the diversity of people who make the Rubin and its science possible.
Click👇 to meet #RubinTeam members and learn what they sound like - and about their favorite emojis!
🌙 Look close. Even closer.
Do you see it?
The tiniest sliver of a crescent moon shines in this vivid sunset scene, just beyond the silhouette of Rubin Observatory.
This photo was taken by #RubinTeam member Yusra AlSayyad on November 24
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