LSST - World's Largest Digital Camera
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:29 pm
World’s largest digital camera ‘the size of a car’ built – and it could ‘photograph a golf ball from 15 miles away’
Its official name is the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera.
The 3,200-megapixel shooter will sit at the heart of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile's Elqui Province.
It weighs an incredible 6,600 pounds with a front lens that measures more than five feet across.
Scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory say it's the largest lens ever made for this kind of astronomy.
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Its official name is the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera.
The 3,200-megapixel shooter will sit at the heart of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile's Elqui Province.
It weighs an incredible 6,600 pounds with a front lens that measures more than five feet across.
Scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory say it's the largest lens ever made for this kind of astronomy.
Read more