Eldorado Posted September 9, 2020 #1 Share Posted September 9, 2020 (edited) "Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park have successfully tested its digital camera that's capable of taking gigantic 3,200-megapixel photos. "The images are made possible by 189 individual sensors spread over a two-foot wide focal plane that dwarfs a standard camera's 1.4-inch-wide imaging sensor. Each of the sensors can take 16 megapixel images. " Full story at ZDnet: Link At LSST: Link SLAC Stanford: Link Edited September 9, 2020 by Eldorado 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted September 9, 2020 #2 Share Posted September 9, 2020 The progress of digital cameras in astronomy blows my mind. When I read the astronomy magazines now I see images, taken by amateurs with modest sized telescopes, that would have needed a large professional telescope when I started reading those same magazines more than 4 decades ago, I see details on the planets, I see nebulae and galaxies, I see images of the International Space Station so detailed that you can see the individual craft docked to it, and in one memorable case, even a space walking astronaut. With new, enormous, telescopes being constructed and a new generation of space based telescopes that will surpass even Hubble we are living in a new golden age of astronomy. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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