Picture Gallery for Sun 2011-01-09 16:06:02 UTC

	Dark Sector during whiteout.
	MAPO (The Martin A. Pomerantz Observatory) where Keck is being built. The wooden structure at left is a ground shield, which prevents light reflected off the ground from hitting the telescope. The keck telescope is inside the ground shield. Note the Bavarian and German flags, courtesy Robert, our winter-over.
	DSL (The Dark Sector Laboratory) which houses the South Pole Telescope (SPT) at left and BICEP2, Keck's predecessor, at right.
	John works on the focal plane in the clean room at DSL.
	John works on the focal plane in the clean room at DSL.
	The SPT receiver cabinet.
	SPT's bearing housing. The bearing was recently replaced.
	The SPT cable wrap, which allows the telescope to rotate in azimuth without tangling anything.
	A SPT's primary from the roof of DSL.
	SPT's primary mirror.
	Looking back at MAPO and Station from atop SPT.
	On top of SPT.
(7614x5127, 3868.67 kb) It's hard to take a picture of SPT's primary from such close quarters, so I did this instead.
	My reflection in the SPT primary.
	An SPT star camera.
	Group shot in front of SPT. From left: Colin, Chin-Lin, Jamie, Grant, me.
	The Ice Cube Lab, the third large building in the Dark Sector. The towers on either side of the building feed the cables from the strands into the counting room.
	Under SPT.
	The elevation drive housing.
(10785x2398, 3511.30 kb) A view of the Dark Sector and the Station from atop SPT.
	In the receiver cabinet.
	A very large battery.
	A very large battery.
	A glimpse of the sun.
	A valentine clad long drop.
	Snow on the side of MAPO, giving an idea of how much digging out is required in the spring.
	SatStat, probably the most visited webpage at pole. It tells us when satellites are overhead.