✍️ Rubin #CommissioningNotes, entry 5️⃣: we’re making gains💪
Efficiency has been the name of the game for the past two weeks! As our team addresses the causes of data-taking interruptions, fewer interruptions occur—meaning even more data overall📈
Read on for recent achievements🧵
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Efficiency has been the name of the game for the past two weeks! As our team addresses the causes of data-taking interruptions, fewer interruptions occur—meaning even more data overall📈
Read on for recent achievements🧵
🔭🧪
December 6, 2024 at 9:25 PM
✍️ Rubin #CommissioningNotes, entry 5️⃣: we’re making gains💪
Efficiency has been the name of the game for the past two weeks! As our team addresses the causes of data-taking interruptions, fewer interruptions occur—meaning even more data overall📈
Read on for recent achievements🧵
🔭🧪
Efficiency has been the name of the game for the past two weeks! As our team addresses the causes of data-taking interruptions, fewer interruptions occur—meaning even more data overall📈
Read on for recent achievements🧵
🔭🧪
Eye to the sky…on-sky engineering tests have begun at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory using the world’s largest digital camera! 🔭🧪
After installing and testing the LSST Camera, we turned the telescope to the sky—a moment 20 years in the making!
With that, Rubin #CommissioningNotes are back ✍️
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After installing and testing the LSST Camera, we turned the telescope to the sky—a moment 20 years in the making!
With that, Rubin #CommissioningNotes are back ✍️
🧵
April 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Eye to the sky…on-sky engineering tests have begun at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory using the world’s largest digital camera! 🔭🧪
After installing and testing the LSST Camera, we turned the telescope to the sky—a moment 20 years in the making!
With that, Rubin #CommissioningNotes are back ✍️
🧵
After installing and testing the LSST Camera, we turned the telescope to the sky—a moment 20 years in the making!
With that, Rubin #CommissioningNotes are back ✍️
🧵
✍️ Rubin #CommissioningNotes, entry 2️⃣: when you turn it on and it works 🤌
Initial tests with Rubin's test camera, ComCam, showed the telescope was already nearly aligned before even looking at the sky — a testament to decades of work! 🔭🧪
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Initial tests with Rubin's test camera, ComCam, showed the telescope was already nearly aligned before even looking at the sky — a testament to decades of work! 🔭🧪
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November 20, 2024 at 6:49 PM
✍️ Rubin #CommissioningNotes, entry 2️⃣: when you turn it on and it works 🤌
Initial tests with Rubin's test camera, ComCam, showed the telescope was already nearly aligned before even looking at the sky — a testament to decades of work! 🔭🧪
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Initial tests with Rubin's test camera, ComCam, showed the telescope was already nearly aligned before even looking at the sky — a testament to decades of work! 🔭🧪
🧵
Commissioning is the process of testing, troubleshooting, and aligning the different parts and software of Rubin into one functional system.
Stay tuned for updates & details, and join us on this exciting adventure toward a complete Rubin Observatory as we log progress in our #CommissioningNotes! 🔭
Stay tuned for updates & details, and join us on this exciting adventure toward a complete Rubin Observatory as we log progress in our #CommissioningNotes! 🔭
November 19, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Commissioning is the process of testing, troubleshooting, and aligning the different parts and software of Rubin into one functional system.
Stay tuned for updates & details, and join us on this exciting adventure toward a complete Rubin Observatory as we log progress in our #CommissioningNotes! 🔭
Stay tuned for updates & details, and join us on this exciting adventure toward a complete Rubin Observatory as we log progress in our #CommissioningNotes! 🔭
Welcome to Rubin's #CommissioningNotes! Entry 1️⃣: we're in full swing!
Ok, but what's "commissioning?"
Rubin Observatory is the result of millions of hours of work by thousands of people around the world -- and now all that work is coming together! 🔭🧪
https://youtu.be/-xbzfu75Nzc
Ok, but what's "commissioning?"
Rubin Observatory is the result of millions of hours of work by thousands of people around the world -- and now all that work is coming together! 🔭🧪
https://youtu.be/-xbzfu75Nzc
#RubinObservatory is the full swing of commissioning! #shorts
We're on a cosmic mission, ambition needs no permission when you're working toward the transmission of data without opposition - that's commissioning 😎Ok, b...
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November 19, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Welcome to Rubin's #CommissioningNotes! Entry 1️⃣: we're in full swing!
Ok, but what's "commissioning?"
Rubin Observatory is the result of millions of hours of work by thousands of people around the world -- and now all that work is coming together! 🔭🧪
https://youtu.be/-xbzfu75Nzc
Ok, but what's "commissioning?"
Rubin Observatory is the result of millions of hours of work by thousands of people around the world -- and now all that work is coming together! 🔭🧪
https://youtu.be/-xbzfu75Nzc
Rubin #CommissioningNotes ✍️: we’re one month into on-sky testing with the LSST Camera!
The letter of the week was “c”: calibrations, computing, commissioning, and sCattered light investigations.
(Yes, we stretched that last one—but the science is solid!) 🔭🧪
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The letter of the week was “c”: calibrations, computing, commissioning, and sCattered light investigations.
(Yes, we stretched that last one—but the science is solid!) 🔭🧪
🧵
May 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Rubin #CommissioningNotes ✍️: we’re one month into on-sky testing with the LSST Camera!
The letter of the week was “c”: calibrations, computing, commissioning, and sCattered light investigations.
(Yes, we stretched that last one—but the science is solid!) 🔭🧪
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The letter of the week was “c”: calibrations, computing, commissioning, and sCattered light investigations.
(Yes, we stretched that last one—but the science is solid!) 🔭🧪
🧵
✍️ Rubin #CommissioningNotes, entry 4️⃣: whoaaa, we’re halfway there 🎶
Halfway through data-taking with Rubin’s test camera, that is. Our team has continued to make great progress testing Rubin’s systems with ComCam 🔭🧪
Read on for last week’s highlights! 🧵
📷: H. Stockebrand
Halfway through data-taking with Rubin’s test camera, that is. Our team has continued to make great progress testing Rubin’s systems with ComCam 🔭🧪
Read on for last week’s highlights! 🧵
📷: H. Stockebrand
November 25, 2024 at 7:20 PM
✍️ Rubin #CommissioningNotes, entry 4️⃣: whoaaa, we’re halfway there 🎶
Halfway through data-taking with Rubin’s test camera, that is. Our team has continued to make great progress testing Rubin’s systems with ComCam 🔭🧪
Read on for last week’s highlights! 🧵
📷: H. Stockebrand
Halfway through data-taking with Rubin’s test camera, that is. Our team has continued to make great progress testing Rubin’s systems with ComCam 🔭🧪
Read on for last week’s highlights! 🧵
📷: H. Stockebrand
Rubin #CommissioningNotes ✍️: On-sky engineering tests continued this week!
The team started tuning image quality control systems in real survey-like conditions. LSST Camera is performing smoothly and has captured over 5,000 sky exposures so far (that’s 15 trillion pixels!) 🔭🧪
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The team started tuning image quality control systems in real survey-like conditions. LSST Camera is performing smoothly and has captured over 5,000 sky exposures so far (that’s 15 trillion pixels!) 🔭🧪
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May 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Rubin #CommissioningNotes ✍️: On-sky engineering tests continued this week!
The team started tuning image quality control systems in real survey-like conditions. LSST Camera is performing smoothly and has captured over 5,000 sky exposures so far (that’s 15 trillion pixels!) 🔭🧪
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The team started tuning image quality control systems in real survey-like conditions. LSST Camera is performing smoothly and has captured over 5,000 sky exposures so far (that’s 15 trillion pixels!) 🔭🧪
🧵
✍️ Rubin #CommissioningNotes, entry 3️⃣: progress continues!
Our team had some exciting accomplishments last week with Rubin's test camera, ComCam:
🏅the best image quality measured so far, and
🎨 data taken of the sky in five of Rubin's six wavelength filters
🔭🧪
https://youtu.be/xyl6rDzDU7Q
Our team had some exciting accomplishments last week with Rubin's test camera, ComCam:
🏅the best image quality measured so far, and
🎨 data taken of the sky in five of Rubin's six wavelength filters
🔭🧪
https://youtu.be/xyl6rDzDU7Q
A few days and nights at #RubinObservatory during commissioning #shorts
Commissioning progress continued last week at Rubin Observatory with some exciting achievements using the test camera, ComCam!🏅the best image quality measur...
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November 21, 2024 at 8:00 PM
✍️ Rubin #CommissioningNotes, entry 3️⃣: progress continues!
Our team had some exciting accomplishments last week with Rubin's test camera, ComCam:
🏅the best image quality measured so far, and
🎨 data taken of the sky in five of Rubin's six wavelength filters
🔭🧪
https://youtu.be/xyl6rDzDU7Q
Our team had some exciting accomplishments last week with Rubin's test camera, ComCam:
🏅the best image quality measured so far, and
🎨 data taken of the sky in five of Rubin's six wavelength filters
🔭🧪
https://youtu.be/xyl6rDzDU7Q
Rubin #CommissioningNotes ✍️: Winter is coming 🥶
It was a chilly week this week at Cerro Pachón in Chile. But our team kept up their commissioning and calibration work, continuing to bring NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory up to full operation as a cohesive system. 🔭🧪
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It was a chilly week this week at Cerro Pachón in Chile. But our team kept up their commissioning and calibration work, continuing to bring NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory up to full operation as a cohesive system. 🔭🧪
🧵
May 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Rubin #CommissioningNotes ✍️: Winter is coming 🥶
It was a chilly week this week at Cerro Pachón in Chile. But our team kept up their commissioning and calibration work, continuing to bring NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory up to full operation as a cohesive system. 🔭🧪
🧵
It was a chilly week this week at Cerro Pachón in Chile. But our team kept up their commissioning and calibration work, continuing to bring NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory up to full operation as a cohesive system. 🔭🧪
🧵
Rubin #CommissioningNotes ✍️: The data deluge from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory is coming!
Rubin captured over 500 exposures per night across 3 nights this week, using its automated observation scheduler — that’s 20x more than during the 7 week period with the engineering camera last year!🔭 🧪
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Rubin captured over 500 exposures per night across 3 nights this week, using its automated observation scheduler — that’s 20x more than during the 7 week period with the engineering camera last year!🔭 🧪
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May 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Rubin #CommissioningNotes ✍️: The data deluge from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory is coming!
Rubin captured over 500 exposures per night across 3 nights this week, using its automated observation scheduler — that’s 20x more than during the 7 week period with the engineering camera last year!🔭 🧪
🧵
Rubin captured over 500 exposures per night across 3 nights this week, using its automated observation scheduler — that’s 20x more than during the 7 week period with the engineering camera last year!🔭 🧪
🧵