Thursday, September 3, 2015

Now That's One Big Camera!

The construction milestone, known as Critical Decision 3, is the last major approval decision before the acceptance of the finished 3.2-gigapixel digital camera, said Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Director Steven Kahn: “Now we can go ahead and procure components and start building it.”
The telescope’s camera — the size of a small car and weighing more than three tons — will capture full-sky images at such high resolution that it would take 1,500 high-definition television screens to display just one of them.

Complete story at AstronomyNow

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