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| Santa Cruz de la Palma. | The peak: Roque de los Muchachos and Caldera de Taburiente. | The Residencia, high above the clouds. | The 4.2-meter William Herschel Telescope. | The PN.S arrives at the mountain (not really). |
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| Aaron with the collimator. | Nigel with the camera unit. | Aaron and Romano Corradi with the WHT Cassegrain mounting ring. | Nigel peers through the collimator. | Kevin Dee reorients the camera. |
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| Raising the collimator into position on the telescope. | Joining the instrument halves. | The instrument (minus CCDs) is good to go! | Peter Moore with the CCD cryostats. | The cryostats. |
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| Installing the CCD controllers. | Washers used as antidote to flexure. | The filter tuning dial. | Nigel debugs the controller software. | Liquid nitrogen fill. |
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| Konrad and Mike observe the "finished product". | Ready to go! | Wide view of the PN.S and WHT. | The PN.S hangs happily off the telescope. | First (flat) exposures! |
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| Mike & Konrad inspect the camera focus. | The sun sets and the night's observing awaits... | Sample images coming here soon... |
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| The present members of the PN.S team pose with the instrument: Mike, Konrad, Nigel and Aaron. | Dismounting the PN.S. | Unbolting. | The overall clearance is a hairsbreadth! | The PN.S dangles in front of the WHT. |
