Checking the WIYN primary

Checking the WIYN primary

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The WIYN 3.5-meter primary mirror after aluminizing, with its mirror support cell, both resting on the NOAO optical shop grinding machine, being pensively, and reflectively, examined by Patricia Boyka from above.

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