World's Largest Digital Camera Now Installed - Photographs at 3.2 Gigapixels

With its 189 separate CCD sensors, each with a resolution of 16 megapixels, the new Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) camera will capture images of the southern hemisphere's starry sky to assist in both cataloging objects and creating the largest image of the universe to date. 

The camera has now been mounted at the Rubin Observatory in Chile, where it will soon begin its work.

- The installation of the LSST camera on the telescope is a triumph for science and engineering, says Harriet Kung, head of the Department of Energy's Office of Science.

The assembly was the last difficult hurdle that could have gone wrong before the construction is put into operation. The next step is thorough testing of the system and fine-tuning of the technology where each image has a resolution of a total of 3200 megapixels - 3.2 gigapixels.

Together with its powerful lens design, the LSST will be a sharp eye on space, saving down a dozen terabytes of image data every night, which is then analyzed and compiled into a comprehensive image. The pixel density is 10 microns.

The camera's filter functions have a special mechanism that allows it to change filters in less than 90 seconds, something needed to photograph in different wavelengths to get different images of the objects it will photograph. The mirror, camera, and the three lenses that make up the optical construction weigh a total of 62 tons. The largest lens element is 157 centimeters long, making it the largest high-performance lens ever created.

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Check out the first close-up of a star outside the Milky Way

The VLT (Very Large Telescope) has captured this close-up of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud.