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LRIS slitmask

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A slitmask for the Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer at Keck. A lot of my time in grad school was spent designing these slitmasks. Each of the slits corresponded to a (candidate) high-redshift galaxy whose spectrum we wanted to collect.