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Rubin Observatory (vrubinobs@astrodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 17:16:36 UTC Rubin Observatory

Photons, meet the Commissioning Camera 🤝
On October 24, Rubin staff successfully completed the first end-to-end on-sky test of the full telescope system using the testing camera — from capturing the night sky to transferring data to SLAC! This means that Rubin now has a complete AND functioning telescope 🥳
This group photo was taken in the closed dome through a pinhole ahead of the on-sky test.
Read more ➡️ https://rubinobservatory.org/news/test-camera-sees-sky
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1. A softly blurred grayscale photo of the circle-shaped top end of Rubin’s Simonyi Survey Telescope, which fills the image. A group of about 10 tiny human figures is lined up at the very bottom of the photo, lining the bottom of the circle. A three-by-three grid separated by black lines is overlaid on the image, indicating the camera's sensor array.
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2. NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory Test Camera Sees the Sky | Rubin Observatory
  
  Rubin uses practice camera to capture first on-sky data

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