Entry for Saturday November 11, 2006

Nick celebrates his ability to open the FTS box.
The cold source on the X-Y stage, for measuring beammaps.
Marie checks for leaks in a star camera pressure vessel. Conventional hard drives require air to run properly, and therefore must run in pressurized environments at altitude.
A public service anouncement: lend your partially defective equipment to a physicist, and we might fix it. And not necessarily in the prettiest way possible.
Aligning the FTS (fourier transform spectrometer).
The FTS in position.
Icicles outside of my dorm.

© 2006 Gaelen Marsden (gmarsden AT phas.ubc.ca)