3.2 billion pixel Camera (Yes, Billion!)

[IND151]

A 3.2 billion-pixel digital camera designed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is now one step closer to reality. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope camera, which will capture the widest, fastest and deepest view of the night sky ever observed, has received “Critical Decision 1” approval by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to move into the next stage of the project.



The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will survey the entire visible sky every week, creating an unprecedented public archive of data – about 6 million gigabytes per year, the equivalent of shooting roughly 800,000 images with a regular eight-megapixel digital camera every night, but of much higher quality and scientific value. Its deep and frequent cosmic vistas will help answer critical questions about the nature of dark energy and dark matter and aid studies of near-Earth asteroids, Kuiper belt objects, the structure of our galaxy and many other areas of astronomy and fundamental physics

A 3.2 billion pixel camera (Yes, Billion!)

 

[IND151]

this camera will be really very useful

with this camera will will have sharper images of sky

 

[IND151]

i hope in future India too develops something like this

 

[epsilon]

science at its best. its gng to b wonderful

 

[Backbencher]

Bas itna chota . Waste of money

 

[Abii]