NIFS was assembled and readied for its first cooldown on Friday August 24 2001. The cryostat contained the cold work surface plate and the radiation shields, but not the spectrograph or the On-Instrument Wavefront Sensor. ... The center of the cold work surface plate reached a minimum temperature of ~ 46.1 K. The getter reached ~ 9.2 K. Both are well below the required final operating temperature. ... Peter Conroy lowering the cold work surface plate into the cryostat. ... Pumping the cryostat. ...

... Printed in U.S.A. THE STELLAR DISK THICKNESS OF LOW SURFACE BRIGHTNESS GALAXIES D. Bizyaev 1,2,3 and S. Kajsin 4 Received 2003 October 23; accepted 2004 June 9 ABSTRACT We present surface photometry results for a sample of 11 edge-on galaxies observed with the 6 m telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia. ... We find from a comparison of photometric scales that the stellar disks of LSB galaxies are thinner than those of high surface brightness ( HSB) galaxies. ... UGC 11301 .. ...