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Old 27-09-2008, 03:23 AM
Ian Robinson
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Get a load of this beast (has 8 EF 200mm f/1.8 USM lenses in a battery) , http://www.superwasp.org/images/8cams.jpg , called a Superwasp.

SuperWASP is the UK's leading extra-solar planet detection program comprising of a consortium of eight academic institutions which include Cambridge University, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, the Isaac Newton Group of telescopes, Keele University, Leicester University, the Open University, Queen's University Belfast and St. Andrew's University.
...The observatories each consist of eight wide-angle cameras that simultaneously monitor the sky for planetary transit events. A transit occurs when a planet passes in front of its parent star temporarily blocking some of the light from it (see the How it works section). The eight wide-angle cameras allow us to monitor millions of stars simultaneously enabling us to detect the rare transit events.

http://www.superwasp.org/index.html

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