![Click to enlarge](img/th_4273.jpg) | Dark Sector during whiteout. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4274.jpg) | 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. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4275.jpg) | DSL (The Dark Sector Laboratory) which houses the South Pole Telescope (SPT) at left and BICEP2, Keck's predecessor, at right. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4276.jpg) | John works on the focal plane in the clean room at DSL. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4277.jpg) | John works on the focal plane in the clean room at DSL. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4279.jpg) | The SPT receiver cabinet. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4280.jpg) | SPT's bearing housing. The bearing was recently replaced. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4281.jpg) | The SPT cable wrap, which allows the telescope to rotate in azimuth without tangling anything. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4283.jpg) | A SPT's primary from the roof of DSL. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4284.jpg) | SPT's primary mirror. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4285.jpg) | Looking back at MAPO and Station from atop SPT. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4286.jpg) | On top of SPT. |
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(7614x5127, 3868.67 kb) It's hard to take a picture of SPT's primary from such close quarters, so I did this instead.
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![Click to enlarge](img/th_4292.jpg) | My reflection in the SPT primary. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4293.jpg) | An SPT star camera. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4294.jpg) | Group shot in front of SPT. From left: Colin, Chin-Lin, Jamie, Grant, me. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4296.jpg) | 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. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4297.jpg) | Under SPT. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4299.jpg) | The elevation drive housing. |
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(10785x2398, 3511.30 kb) A view of the Dark Sector and the Station from atop SPT.
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![Click to enlarge](img/th_4305.jpg) | In the receiver cabinet. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4306.jpg) | A very large battery. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4307.jpg) | A very large battery. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4309.jpg) | A glimpse of the sun. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4310.jpg) | A valentine clad long drop. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4311.jpg) | Snow on the side of MAPO, giving an idea of how much digging out is required in the spring. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4312.jpg) | SatStat, probably the most visited webpage at pole. It tells us when satellites are overhead. |