 | 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. |