World's Largest Digital Camera for Astronomical Research is Ready

World's Largest Digital Camera for Astronomical Research is Ready
world's largest digital camera for astronomical research is almost complete. Its total power is equivalent to 2,666 iPhones that will be installed at the Vera C. Reuben Observatory in Chile
Experts from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory have developed it and it will be called the LSST camera. The camera weighs three tons and is the size of a small car. The 3200 megapixel sensor installed in it will be cooled to minus 100 degrees Celsius, which will reduce the noise of digital images.
The camera will be installed on top of the Simonai Survey Telescope in Chile in 2024 and is expected to search for new stars, planets, galaxies and other astronomical objects, as well as dark matter and dark energy. Help will come.
Stanford: The world's largest digital camera for astronomical research is almost complete. Its total power is equivalent to 2,666 iPhones that will be installed at the Vera C. Reuben Observatory in Chile.
It has been developed by experts at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory and will be named the LSST camera. The camera weighs three tons and is the size of a small car. The 3200 megapixel sensor installed in it will be cooled to minus 100 degrees Celsius, which will reduce the noise of digital images.
camera will be installed on top of the Simonai Survey Telescope in Chile in 2024 and is expected to search for new stars, planets, galaxies and other astronomical objects, as well as dark matter and dark energy. Help will come.
The project, called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will acquire several terabytes of data per day and is expected to map billions of galaxies. Although it is a digital camera, it is very large. It has 189 sensors. Each sensor can collect more pixels than the latest iPhone model. Its clarity (resolution) can be estimated so that it can see even a grain of sand on the moon with a resolution of 3.2 gigapixels.
However, it is a very sensitive camera and costs a lot