LSST Camera focal plane being assembled
Crews at SLAC have taken the first 3200-megapixel image with the complete focal plane of the LSST Camera, the future “eye” of Vera C. Rubin Observatory. This is the largest digital image ever taken in a single shot.
Credit:Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/NSF/DOE/Rubin Observatory/AURA
About the Image
Id: | ann20013c |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | Sept. 8, 2020, 6:59 p.m. |
Related announcements: | ann20013 |
Size: | 5602 x 2160 px |
About the Object
Category: | Vera C. Rubin Observatory |
Image Formats
Large JPEG
1.8 MB
Publication TIFF 4K
6.6 MB
Publication JPEG
1.1 MB
Screensize JPEG
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