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Completely mounted OM telescope in testing


OM telescope

Side view of a fully mounted OM telescope, with baffle, tube and blue OM detector electronics. The structure is fixed at the OM interface to the mirror support platform (square piece) on which also the X-ray telescopes will be mounted.

Photo courtesy of Mullard Space Science Laboratory, England.

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