Abstract
The Tuesday keynote. The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory sits on Cerro Pachon in the Coquimbo region of Chile and carries the largest digital camera ever built; its ten-year survey has been described as the greatest astronomical movie of all time. Sandrine Thomas, Associate Director for Rubin Summit Operations, explains what that mission demands of alignment – a wide field of view and an enormous camera leave very little room for anything to sit where it should not – and why a metrology audience should care about a telescope in the Andes.
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Sandrine Thomas. Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Presented at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference 2026, Dallas, Texas, July 20-24, 2026. Coordinate Metrology Society, reference CMS-2026-017.