The LSST Camera works like any other digital camera, but it’s vastly bigger. Its 189 sensors take in light emanating from objects like stars and convert it to electrical signals that can be turned into digital. Each sensor is a square with sides about 42 millimetres long and packs more pixels than a single iPhone 13. In total, the camera has 3.2 gigapixels and will take images with resolution high enough to see a particle of dust on the moon. Its largest lens, with a diameter of 1.
In 2020, before any lenses or shutters were installed on the camera, SLAC researchers tested the sensors by snapping images of various objects, including a, through a pinhole. Now, with all other permanent pieces in place, the camera will be rigorously tested for five months to prevent having to troubleshoot it once it’s on top of a mountain, says Riot.
Then it’s off to Santiago, Chile on a chartered Boeing 747 where it will be transferred to a train car and sent to the top of Cerro Pachón, where it will give us a view of the universe like we’ve never had before.Article amended onWe corrected the size of the sensors and clarified which iPhone the number of pixels compares to
But we still don't know what a woman is, do we?
sounds as important as Gaia star survey...the really honest way to map our galaxy - and now the universe...we are better informed now than we have ever been..i cant believe we missed so much in the sixties.!!!
LaRae3862 Too bad space is fake
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You’re literally causing climate change and you don’t even know it.
This is cool!
That may be, but it’ll never look as good as film…* *imagining the jacuzzi-sized developing tank that it would take to process a frame that size.
Coming soon, the world’s largest selfie stick…
Now we're finally talking real science
Happy to see how the first picture they took was of cauliflower
Retaking after my thumb was in the photo (for 10 years!)
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