A Virtual Tour of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Currently under construction at Cerro Pachon in Chile, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is at the vanguard of the next generation of wide-field surveys of the sky. Capable of imaging a huge swath of sky at one go — 40 times the angular size of the full moon — LSST will survey the entire night sky every two weeks. This visualization, featured in the documentary Seeing the Beginning of Time, gives us a virtual peek inside the LSST enclosure.
Credit:AVL/NCSA/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
About the Image
Id: | noaoann19005a |
Type: | Artwork |
Release date: | March 6, 2019 |
Related announcements: | noaoann19005 |
Size: | 1200 x 673 px |
About the Object
Category: | Vera C. Rubin Observatory |