It looks similar to the folks at Stanford didn't obtain the memo about the megapixel race being over. The Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is formulation to erect a a billion pixel sensor. That's 3.2 gigapixels.
The camera, that will cost around $170,000 to build, will be around "the size of a tiny car," and the sensor will be made up of 189 not as big sensors. And what will Stanford boffins use this for? Not for gnawing photos of their pets, that's for sure. The camera will be a segment of the $500 million Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), that will tear photos of the heavens from a Chilean mountaintop.
To takeover images, the LSST will use an 8.4-meter (28-foot) mirror, and import around 650 tons. Despite this weight, it will be able to tear in to location in only 5 seconds, recording 800 15-second exposures any night. It will be able to see " light that's 100 million times fainter than the human eye can see," says Paul O'Connor, the scientist in assign of the sensor's workings.
Construction will beginning when the LSST clears the last stages for appropriation from the U.S. Department of Energy. And once it is up and running, the open will be able to access its data, a four-dimensional model of the Milky Way. Think of it as a little similar to Google Street View, only is to universe.
SLAC-led Project to Build World's Largest Digital Camera Impresses DOE Panel [SLAC News Center around Rob Galbraith ]
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