Magellan II - 90,000 man hours, 400,000 pounds later!
Two 6.5 meter Baade and Clay optical reflecting telescope mounts were manufactured during the 1990’s by L&F Industries, Huntington Park CA., for The Carnegie Institute of Washington DC. This space is a pictorial history of the instruments this blogger documented during final assembly "Where Precision Was A Way Of Life"
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