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5.11 System Flexure

Flexure tests have shown that the instrument is mechanically very stable. No shifts larger than a few tenths of a pixel were measured while moving the telescope from 4 hours east through the zenith to 4 hours west, and from -20 degrees to +70 degrees declination.