| The mount base once we got
the holes in the right place. |
| Tying the fork down... |
| ...so that it doesn't move
while we lift it up. |
| Here comes the crane... |
| ...to lift up the mount... |
| ...so we can drill holes in
the pier on which it sits. |
| Here's Fred, operating the crane. |
| Had to make sure the
holding straps wouldn't slide over and damage sensitive parts of the mount when
we lifted it. |
| When we
lifted it, we found the telescope weighed just over 600 pounds. |
| Drilling new holes. The
telescope is being dangled about four feet over the pier right now. |
| Threading the holes so that
we can screw bolts into them. |
| The dangling telescope and
lifting harness. |
| A wider angle to show the crane. |
| Some scoring damage to the
inner cylinder of the secondary assembly by the broken flex ring. |
| The bottom of the secondary
assembly with the repaired flex ring. |
| The top of the repaired
secondary assembly. |
| Putting the screws back in
that control the relative positioning of the elements. |
| A view down the inner cylinder. |
| The back of the telescope
with the camera installed. |