CraigS
19-08-2010, 07:23 AM
Also in the news today ..
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope deemed top priority"
http://www.physorg.com/news201340462.html
"Scheduled to begin full operations six years after the construction begins, the 8.4-meter LSST telescope will be equipped with the world’s largest digital camera (3.2 billion pixels). This system will survey the entire visible sky to very faint limits in multiple colors every week.
The project will last for 10 years and will produce 2,000 images of every part of the sky - more than 20,000 square degrees. It will be constructed on Cerro Pachón, a mountain in northern Chile. LSST will produce 30 terabytes of data per night, yielding a total database of 100 petabytes. This massive data set will be used to construct, for the first time, a color “movie” of the sky that will enable unique and powerful studies of objects that move or change in brightness."
Man ... that's a lot of image to process !!!
3.2 billion pixel camera !!
Huge !!
Cheers
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope deemed top priority"
http://www.physorg.com/news201340462.html
"Scheduled to begin full operations six years after the construction begins, the 8.4-meter LSST telescope will be equipped with the world’s largest digital camera (3.2 billion pixels). This system will survey the entire visible sky to very faint limits in multiple colors every week.
The project will last for 10 years and will produce 2,000 images of every part of the sky - more than 20,000 square degrees. It will be constructed on Cerro Pachón, a mountain in northern Chile. LSST will produce 30 terabytes of data per night, yielding a total database of 100 petabytes. This massive data set will be used to construct, for the first time, a color “movie” of the sky that will enable unique and powerful studies of objects that move or change in brightness."
Man ... that's a lot of image to process !!!
3.2 billion pixel camera !!
Huge !!
Cheers