World's largest digital camera to help new Vera Rubin Observatory make a 'time-lapse record of the universe'

World's largest digital camera to help new Vera Rubin Observatory make a 'time-lapse record of the universe'

A major milestone with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has been reached with the installation of the telescope's enormous eye — the world's largest digital camera.

World's Largest Camera is Ready to Take Its First 3,200-Megapixel Photos of the Universe

The groundbreaking 6,600-pound 3,200-megapixel Legacy Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) was installed this week at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. With the final optical component in position, the LSST team will perform final testing before capturing highly anticipated "First Look" photos.

Vera Rubin Gets its Camera Installed - Universe Today

Located on a mountaintop in Chile, the nearly complete Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture the Universe in incredible detail. This week saw another huge step for the observatory with the installation of the car sized - yes car sized - LSST camera onto the Simonyi Survey Telescope. The camera is the largest ever built, weighing in at over 3,000 kilograms with an impressive 3,200 megapixels. Coupled to the 8.4 metre optics of the Rubin will all…

With this component, the observatory installed in Chile, will soon be ready to capture more images than any other observatory in history At the top of Cerro Pachón, in the Coquimbo Region, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a new astronomy giant, is about to turn his gaze on the cosmos. It is not a telescope anymore, but an instrument that promises to transform our understanding of the universe, allowing us to observe previously unknown phenomena wi…

In summer the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is scheduled to record its work, the heart of which is the largest digital camera in the world. It has now been mounted on the telescope.

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory installs giant camera in Chile

After scientists at Menlo Park’s SLAC national accelerator laboratory spent over two decades developing and constructing a car-sized camera, it has now been installed at the new, nearly complete Vera C. Rubin Observatory in the Coquimbo Region of Chile.  The post SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory installs giant camera in Chile appeared first on Palo Alto Online.