3000 megapixel camera

gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
edited May 30, 2006 in The Big Picture
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  • photodougphotodoug Registered Users Posts: 870 Major grins
    edited May 30, 2006
    3 billion pixels
    wide-angle telescope to capture entire sky in Chile at the rate of 30 terabytes of data per night

    http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn9200&feedId=online-news_rss20

    dn9200-1_750.jpg
  • rainforest1155rainforest1155 Registered Users Posts: 4,566 Major grins
    edited May 30, 2006
    There's an unansweared post from gus currently on the second page posting the same thing. mwink.gif

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  • photodougphotodoug Registered Users Posts: 870 Major grins
    edited May 30, 2006
    rainforest1155 wrote:
    There's an unansweared post from gus currently on the second page posting the same thing. mwink.gif

    Sebastian

    awww....but mine has a pretty picture, er, artist's conceptual art rather.
  • rainforest1155rainforest1155 Registered Users Posts: 4,566 Major grins
    edited May 30, 2006
    Nice camera, guess anyone has a big enough wallet to buy such a thingy for home use - yet. :D

    Thanks for the link,
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  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited May 30, 2006
    That's small compared to this one:

    tmt-500.jpg

    30-meter TMT which also may be going to Chile. (I guess humans in scale drawings must be red for some reason. Hope they don't die on the next away mission.)

    Our lab is bidding to build an instrument for it... not scheduled to be on sky until 2014 though.
    Chris
  • photodougphotodoug Registered Users Posts: 870 Major grins
    edited May 30, 2006
    ChrisJ wrote:
    That's small compared to this one:



    30-meter TMT which also may be going to Chile. (I guess humans in scale drawings must be red for some reason. Hope they don't die on the next away mission.)

    Our lab is bidding to build an instrument for it... not scheduled to be on sky until 2014 though.

    "on sky".....coool term.
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