Off to the right just inside the basement door is a vacuum-deposition chamber used for resilvering the smaller mirrors at Palomar (the 200-inch mirror obviously wouldn’t fit). The white room behind it houses part of the adaptive optics system, and behind that are two spare gears (never needed) for the telescope;’s mechanism.
Off to the right just inside the basement door is a vacuum-deposition chamber used for resilvering the smaller mirrors at Palomar (the 200-inch mirror obviously wouldn’t fit). The white room behind it houses part of the adaptive optics system, and behind that are two spare gears (never needed) for the telescope;’s mechanism.
