Large Synoptic Survey Telescope camera

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope camera
Beginning in 2022, the most powerful digital camera ever built will start taking pictures of the southern sky. Over the course of a 10-year mission atop a mountain in Chile, the 3.2 gigapixel instrument is expected to accomplish a feat that might be hard to wrap your mind around. It will record tens of billions of galaxies floating in space–the first time a telescope will have ever identified more of the massive celestial objects than there are people on Earth.

The gif bellow shows the three-ton, small- car -sized camera on the left. Illustrated is the system that slides filters down in front of the 3.2 gigapixel CCD, which senses light and is a digital camera’s version of film. The filters will let the camera record in light wavelengths from the near-ultraviolet to the near-infrared.

PR:
https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2015-08-31-world%E2%80%99s-most-powerful-digital-camera-sees-construction-green-light.aspx

Source and further reading:
http://txchnologist.com/post/129289911250/construction-starts-for-camera-that-will-capture

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