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Originally Posted by JA
Thanks for the Video Alpal.
It's amazing that it has a FOV 9.62 deg^2 with an aperture of 8.4m!!!
That's the same FOV (close enough) to something between a 600mm focal length lens (7.9deg^2) or Tak FSQ106 (10.1 deg^2) on FullFrame, except that the "lens" has an 8.4m aperture. That would make it something around a f/0.06 (give or take the central obstruction)!!!
Best
JA
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There is nothing like this ever in history.
I'm sure it will make great discoveries.
Also - data of the same area from night after night could be stacked
to go deeper and deeper to reveal dimmer structures.
Imagine if you could stack 1000 frames of the same area?
I don't know if the present stacking software could handle such large frames at 3.2 gigapixel per frame!
If everyone is given access to the data then amateur astronomers could
download that data & by stacking make new discoveries.