![Click to enlarge](img/th_4557.jpg) | Gaelen and Matt paint exposed sun shield frames. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4559.jpg) | Going to the moon. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4561.jpg) | In the lobby. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4562.jpg) | Measuring the effects of cardboard tubes on the beam. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4563.jpg) | Nick and Matt fill BLAST's jerry can with liquid nitrogen. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4564.jpg) | The cold source set up in the LDB highbay. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4565.jpg) | BLAST looking out the staging bay door. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4566.jpg) | More cardboard tube tests. If we encounter any cardboard tubes in the stratosphere we'll have no trouble removing them in post flight analysis now. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4567.jpg) | The primary mirror plug on the table. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4571.jpg) | Mark accessories with white tape. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4572.jpg) | Improper terminal lug storage. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4573.jpg) | Proper terminal lug storage. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4574.jpg) | Mark takes a picture of BLAST. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4575.jpg) | Watching Hercules while doing beam tests. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4576.jpg) | Pizza. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4577.jpg) | A Rube Goldberg device involving the secondary mirror, some Kevlar thread, a step ladder, a vise, a C-clamp, a scale, a hook, a carabiner, another C-clamp and an aluminum bar. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4578.jpg) | Thank You. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4579.jpg) | An even more impressive contraption, this one involving two step ladders. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4582.jpg) | Beam mapping with BLAST. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4583.jpg) | Beam mapping with BLAST. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4584.jpg) | Beam mapping with BLAST. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4585.jpg) | Beam mapping with BLAST. The step ladders hold up the big beam which has a Kevlar thread which is pulling up on the secondary mirror to see if there is any deflection. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4586.jpg) | Mark goes up to work on the secondary. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4591.jpg) | An eight second exposure of Gaelen setting up the cold source down the road, 100 metres from BLAST at midnight. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4593.jpg) | Ditto. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4595.jpg) | Ditto. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4596.jpg) | A long exposure looking down the road at the source. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4598.jpg) | A tree frog on the door discovered by Nick and photographed by Gaelen. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4600.jpg) | A tree frog on the door discovered by Nick and photographed by Gaelen. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4601.jpg) | After many hours in the highbay, running beam maps. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4602.jpg) | Gaelen. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4603.jpg) | Mark prepares to vent the cryogens. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4604.jpg) | Venting helium. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4605.jpg) | Venting helium. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4606.jpg) | Venting helium. |
![Click toplay](img/th_4607.jpg) | Venting helium. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4608.jpg) | Venting helium. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4609.jpg) | Venting nitrogen. Mark is inserting a blue foam panel to direct the liquid nitrogen to a better place. Note that, while liquid helium goes up, liquid nitrogen goes down. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4610.jpg) | Venting nitrogen. |
![Click toplay](img/th_4611.jpg) | Venting nitrogen. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4612.jpg) | Venting nitrogen. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4613.jpg) | Venting nitrogen. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4614.jpg) | Celebrating a successful conclusion to the focusing tests. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4615.jpg) | Giant ("Devlin-esque") cryostat temperature readout. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4616.jpg) | Chris measures the displacement of the secondary mirror. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4617.jpg) | The terminal lugs after re-sorting by Gaelen. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4618.jpg) | Preparing to remove the cryostat. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4619.jpg) | Staging for packing to the ice. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4620.jpg) | Removing the primary mirror. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4621.jpg) | The bottom of the primary mirror. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4622.jpg) | Group photo with the mirror. |