Insides of the SWIRC dewar

Shimming the liquid nitrogen can and radiation shield

Detector assembly on the cold plate

The heat switch

Chip carrier during testing

Cool-down test measuring the deflection of the detector mount

Circuit board wiring

Cryogenic filter wheel

Filter control box wiring

Filter motor driver settings

Optics bonded into the lens bezels

SWIRC's very first read-out of the HAWAII-2 engineering array

Unloading the instrument.

Assembling the instrument.

Mounting the instrument.

Warren Brown, PI, with SWIRC on the MMT.

It works!! First light: a very saturated 4th mag star.

M3 in H-band. The stack is 7 x 7 arcmin.

NGC3147 in H.

NGC6720 in J.

Galaxy cluster A2390 in H.

The SWIRC commissioning team (left-to-right): Brian McLeod, Maureen Conroy, Mike Pahre, Warren Brown, Emily Bowsher, and Bill Wyatt.