3 gigapixel camera

[Joe P]

That's not a typo in the thread's header -- a 3GP camera pointed at the sky.

Expect to see me nerding it up (well, more so) in about nine years.

Joe

 

[vuk]

yeah, but what size are the pixels?

i bet you it won't beat a leica with summicron 50.

vuk.

 

[Joe P]

Vuk,

The pixels will be 10 μm, which is a little bigger than the pixels in the very low noise Nikon D3 (8.45 µm pixel pitch). Big, low noise pixels are what you want in such a telescope, the exact opposite of what you find in the typical 10MP point-n-shoot.

http://www.lsst.org/About/lsst_camera.shtml

Joe

 

[auric]

FTA

Gates is contributing $10 million.

Now I feel a bit of a shit for moving to Linux and depriving BG of some of his revenues

 

[kasperhauser]

Excellent gigapixel image here (ok, so the actual image isn't there, at least not available for download in all its pixelly splendor, but it's interesting nonetheless).

 

[Jonathan Ribee]

At what point will we need no more pixels because the human eye can't distinguish?

Kilo, Mega, Giga, Tera, Peta ....

 

[kasperhauser]

Potentially some answers here... I ain't smart enough to be able to say for sure.

 

[Jonathan Ribee]

Thanks. 500 mega to 1 giga range. Hmmm. The stuff on light intensity was interesting.