Earth’s Largest Camera Takes 3 Billion-Pixel Images of the Night Sky

[oldbrownhat]

One for the astronomy and photo buffs. Gift NYT article here. (Link corrected)

The observatory will produce about 20 terabytes of data every night.

 

[LVSteve]

Love the resolution, but it's a teeny bit unwieldy for bug and reptile photography. Should be good for birds, though.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Love the resolution, but it's a teeny bit unwieldy for bug and reptile photography. Should be good for birds, though.

Needs to be kept cool, though: "Its focal plane is just over two feet wide: a grid of sensors sealed in a vacuum and supercooled to minus 148 Fahrenheit to prevent grainy or speckled images."

 

[rwsmith]

20 TB a NIGHT?! Whoo-ee Deppudy Dawg!

I can donate a few thumb drives I'm not using.

 

[DWalt]

Seems like a great application for the use of Quantum computing.

 

[Tom S.]

Why is it pointed at the beach?

 

[CH4]

And I thought my 600 f4 was unwieldy.

 

[rwsmith]

Why is it pointed at the beach?

Take pictures of girls? 20 TB worth????