https://gizmodo.com/...slac-1851383305
Nine years and 3.2 billion pixels later, it is complete: the LSST Camera stands as the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy and will serve as the centerpiece of the Vera Rubin Observatory, poised to begin its exploration of the southern skies.
The camera will use its 5.1-foot-wide optical lens to take a 15-second exposure of the sky every 20 seconds, automatically changing filters to view light in every wavelength from near-ultraviolet to the near-infrared. Its constant monitoring of the skies will eventually amount to a timelapse of the heavens; it will highlight fleeting events for other scientists to train their telescopes on, and monitor changes in the southern sky.
I wonder if they will be taking calibration frames?
Wish I could have found a better reference link. Just happened to come accross this one
This looks to be a better link.
https://www6.slac.st...built-astronomy
Edited by DanMiller, 04 April 2024 - 07:10 AM.
