World's Largest Camera, the 3.2-Gigapixel LSST, Is Complete

Engineers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have completed work on the Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera. The device is the world's largest digital camera and will be the centerpiece of a 10-year mission to map the night sky from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

00:00 LSST camera
00:30 The worlds largest digital camera
01:28 How does the camera work?
02:19 The shutter
02:30 Dark energy and dark matter
02:59 The camera moves to Chile

#camera #space #spacephotography #tech

[nalzazlan]

Finally a camera that can take portrait photo of yo mama.

[bengt_axle]

"Where do we save the images to? E drive is full. Again."

[stevenattaway]

IDK, Maybe you should have also made the world's largest lens cap and put it over the front glass.

[idj]

The bokeh effect at 10 feet away would be truly amazing.

[Masterke-pz]

Spotting a golfball 15 miles away? I leave it for the early adapters and gonna sit this out and wait for v2.

[sylviaflores-qb]

As a Chilean citizen I’m so proud that this amazing wonderful project will be launched in my country.
You people are so talented and inspiring to all human kind.
My most sincere thanks.🩷💙💜🌙❤️🌟🌈🌈🌈🌈

[Psycandy]

'the lenses are there to focus different wavelengths of light' - only when correcting lens aberration. Mirrors don't have this effect, which is why they are used, so the camera lenses are essentially there to allow a massive array to capture an area much smaller than itself. THAT is _why_ lenses are used, as opposed to mirrors.

[qpwoeiruty]

2:09 "two different shades of blue"
i see like 5-7

[ScoutSniper]

Great, are they available on Amazon? I've got a vacation coming up.

[doodskie]

See a golfball from 15 miles away?
Pffft CSI already had this tech 20 years ago, they can even zoom in a fingerprint on a hammer 😂

[RichardsWorld]

I have one of these on order. It should be a great selfie camera.

[nro]

What an incredible feat. There was I thinking 0.555 NMA made sense, whereas this is clearly the video we are waiting for! HOORAY!

[BoazAfful]

A 5-second video will occupy 10 GB of space.

[SegoJordania]

Imagine if that camera put on a lower orbit!?? how amazing pictures we would received!!

[MYM]

Can I borrow this for some “selfies”, need to make some things look bigger 😂

[lohman]

When will the macro lens be available?

[millenialfalcon]

So... ZWO SeeStar 1500 Pro? Where can I buy one?

[DariusRoland]

Very exciting! More of these stories please! Thank you

[hopelessnerd]

"I'm sorry. The cloud is full. Please delete some photos."

[panda]

to be honest, the ending was kind of underwhelming, I was expecting it to go to space to avoid being obscured by the atmosphere...