{"id":88571,"date":"2022-10-06T07:23:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T07:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/3200-megapixels-the-worlds-largest-camera-is-almost-complete\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T07:23:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T07:23:57","slug":"3200-megapixels-the-worlds-largest-camera-is-almost-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/3200-megapixels-the-worlds-largest-camera-is-almost-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"3,200 Megapixels: The World’s Largest Camera is Almost Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are nearly done with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera, the world’s largest digital camera ever built for astronomy. <\/p>\n
The LSST Camera is roughly the size of a small car and weighs three tons. It features a five-foot wide front lens and a 3,200-megapixel sensor that will be cooled to -100 degrees Celsius to reduce noise. <\/p>\n
The camera will eventually live atop the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile where it will be tasked with observing the night sky for a decade with the goal of providing a trove of data that scientists will study to try and understand some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, including the nature of dark energy and dark matter.<\/p>\n
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The large aperture, wide-field optical camera is capable of viewing light from the near ultraviolet to near-infrared wavelengths and is made up of 189 charge-coupled device (CCD) sensors arranged in a total of 21, three-by-three square arrays mounted on platforms called rafts. <\/p>\n
SLAC explains that the 64-centimeter-wide focal plane corresponds to a 3.5-degree field of view, which means the camera can capture more than 40 times the area of \u200b\u200bthe full moon in the sky with each exposure.<\/p>\n