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Hobby-Eberly Telescope Construction
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Images and explanatory text from West Texas Time Machine: Creating the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, Little Hands of Concrete Productions, 1998, with permission—available for purchase through the observatory gift shop.

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Foundations

 Drumhead

 Pier
Steel Building

 Concrete Finish

 Aerial View
Frame Assembly

 Frame Installation

 Base Wedge
Truss Assembly

 In Texas

 Reassembled Truss
Flying Truss

 Truss on Frame

 Dome Assembly
Dome Shutter

 Big Pieces

 Flying Dome
A World of Framing

 Tracker

 Positioning Components
Tracker Installed

 Tracker Package

 HET 001
Segment with Support

 Segment Installation

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Installed Primary

 Full Array

 Reflections
 
Time Machine

 Dusk

  
 





7 October 2003
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