Technology Camera Resolution 3.2 Megapixel - Resolution
50 megapixel camera for the consumer class is very large. But
the resolution did not go when the camera is used for photographing the sky in
space.
Not again be if the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) requires the camera with a resolution of 3.2 gigapixel as eyes for telescopes that were on the mountain Cerro Pachon, Chile. Recently, they have taken the green light from the Department of Energy (DOE), the US started a factory camera.
The US Department of Energy here to act as financier for the camera. While the telescope, as well as various infrastructure sites telescope will receive funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
"We are very excited to see everyone's hard work was rewarded with approval by the DOE," said SLAC Director of Chi-Chang Kao, as quoted by the Daily Mail, Wednesday (02/09/2015).
SLAC is the responsibility of the whole project management, building system, designed camera crews, and others. To build a Technology Camera Resolution 3.2 gigapixel camera, including test is about 5 years.
Telescopes will be used to take pictures of the southern sky during
the night 10 years later. The
goal is to record all the stars and galaxies that are in the sky, that is to
say the number much larger than the population of the earth.
The resolution is, the size of Resolution 3.2-gigapixel camera will be very large, weighing
up to 3 tons with dimensions resembling small cars. It
features a variety of color filters that can capture such a wave of colors,
from the ultraviolet to the infrared.
Image produced by the camera is set to take place every year in the 6 TB
data warehouse. Data
warehouse is equal to one 8-megapixel camera is used to capture images of 800
thousand every night, for 10 years.
Not strange indeed, considering resolution images it produces are immense. Resolution images with the same image displayed by 1,500 full HD TV.
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