The world’s largest digital camera for astronomy is complete. Once in place on a telescope in Chile, the LSST Camera will gather an unprecedented amount of data about our Universe, yielding new insights into everything from dark energy to asteroids.
For the tech-geeks:
[The sensor] is made up of 201 individual custom-designed CCD sensors, and it is so flat that its surface varies by no more than a tenth of the width of a human hair. The pixels themselves are only 0.01 mm (10 microns) wide. The front lens is over 1.5 meters (5 feet) across.
It'll capture from IR to UV light.
noirlab.edu
For the tech-geeks:
[The sensor] is made up of 201 individual custom-designed CCD sensors, and it is so flat that its surface varies by no more than a tenth of the width of a human hair. The pixels themselves are only 0.01 mm (10 microns) wide. The front lens is over 1.5 meters (5 feet) across.
It'll capture from IR to UV light.
Construction of Largest Digital Camera Ever Built for Astronomy Completed - SLAC celebrates the completion of Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 3200-megapixel camera
The world’s largest digital camera for astronomy is complete. Once in place on a telescope in Chile, the LSST Camera will gather an unprecedented amount of data about our Universe, yielding new insights into everything from dark energy to asteroids.
noirlab.edu
