Monday, 23 June 2014

All the sky, all the time: UK astronomers debate involvement in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will be sited at Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes and will have a primary mirror 8.4 metres in diameter, making it one of the largest single telescopes in the world, as well as the world’s largest digital camera, comprising 3.2 billion pixels. It will achieve first light in 2020 and its main sky survey will begin in 2022.

via Science Daily

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