camera Giant 3.2 Billion-pixel Camera

[Marshall Veteran]

Is this the most powerful camera in the world? Giant 3.2billion-pixel device will give us the 'deepest view of the night sky ever seen'

• The camera will take the equivalent of 800,000 images by an eight-mega pixel camera every night - but of a vastly superior quality
  
• It will be housed in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile
  

A telescope is being built that scientists say ?will transform our understanding of the universe?.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is being put together by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the U.S, which boasts in a statement that it ?will capture the widest, fastest and deepest view of the night sky ever observed?.

This is because it packs a 3.2billion-pixel camera that will survey the entire visible sky every week, creating an unprecedented public archive of data ? about six million gigabytes per year.

This is 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.

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[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

cannot wait to see the images that are going to start coming out of this thing. too bad they are going to leave it on earth with the atmosphere interfering with the images.

[Elliot B.]

cannot wait to see the images that are going to start coming out of this thing. too bad they are going to leave it on earth with the atmosphere interfering with the images.

I'm sure they know what they're doing.

[Xerino]

but it still cant beat 35mm :p

[MidnightDevil]

Heh... every picture will take gigabytes of space :b which is cool, can i take a picture of me and upload it into facebook ?

[Vandalsquad]

but it still cant beat 35mm :p

I remember our old school photography teachers at school always shouting this, "They will never get the same megapixels into a digital camera as 35mm film, NEVER!" Yet a few years later you can already buy hand held professional SLRs that do. :laugh:

[Quillz]

cannot wait to see the images that are going to start coming out of this thing. too bad they are going to leave it on earth with the atmosphere interfering with the images.

Actually, very large Earth-based telescopes are now capable of seeing even father than something like the Hubble Space Telescope, just because of how fast technology improves. I'd imagine this wouldn't be hampered by the atmosphere too much, either.

[Brian Miller]

Looks like we can get a closer look at far distance galaxies.

[McCordRm]

cannot wait to see the images that are going to start coming out of this thing. too bad they are going to leave it on earth with the atmosphere interfering with the images.

That was my first thought as well.

No matter how well it will perform, the FACT is that there is indeed interference from the atmosphere. Imagine if we had something that powerful

in space.

Still, it should prove to be awesome.