Go-ahead to manufacture 3.2 billion pixel super-class camera, plan to start shooting pictures of the universe in 2022

Budget approved in January 2015Was doneLarge Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)The United States Department of Energy (DoE) issued a go-ahead for the manufacture of the 3.2 billion pixel camera that will be the core of. We have already completed a clean room of 2000 square feet (about 186 square meters) for assembling cameras.

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This go-ahead by DoE is a big milestone called "Critical Decision 3" in the construction of LSST, and Steven Kahn, director of LSST, said: "With this we can pick up parts and make cameras "Comment on relief is issued.

LSST is from ChileMount PachyeonWe are planning to set up an infrared telescope, we will use a 3-ton, 3-ton pixel digital camera of 3 billion tons of go-ahead this time to shoot high resolution photos equivalent to 1,500 HD compatible TVs on one. By replacing the filter with this camera, it is possible to capture wavelengths from near ultraviolet to near infrared.

The amount of photos taken is expected to be 6 million GB (about 6 petabytes) per year. This is the amount you need to keep taking 800,000 pictures every night if you have a 8 megapixel digital camera. The photographs taken are used for the composition of the galaxy, potentially dangerous asteroids, supernova explosion, dark matter and dark energy research.

The National Research CouncilAstro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal SurveyIn the next 10 years I am citing the LSST as the top priority on the ground in the next 10 years.

The LSST is said to have completed surface lenses for the telescope, but it is said that it will take five years to manufacture and test the camera, and the operation will be scheduled from 2022.

On the official site of LSST, the picture of the foundation work was released.

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