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Waiting for it to get dark, I walk over to MASTER. It's a crazy giant pair of binoculars. They are not even always aligned... there is a servo (visible at center) that will splay them apart by a few degrees, or co-align them. You can also see the pair of Canon camera lenses they use here as finderscopes.

This is a wide-field telescope to search for optical transients: gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, exoplanets, and so forth.