ISI cam

I've got a web cam grabbing images once a minute and making them available for public consumption:

You can find the current image here, and a bunch of old image here.  Eventually I'll make a movie out of them.

Briefly, what that big metal shiny thing at the right is:

1. active (like with actuators and stuff) seismic isolation platform
2. made out of aluminum
3. weighs about 5000 pounds
4. contains more than 1000 helicoils, all put in by hand (a couple of hundred by yours truly).
   what that means is that all the little holes you see are tapped into the aluminum, but then a small hard steel insert is wound in.  This is what the screw or bolt will bite into, instead of damaging the soft aluminum body.
5. will support some optics inside the vacuum system soon.