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CFH Telescope Gets New Wide-field Digital Camera

Posted by chrisd on from the hate-the-megapixel-term dept.

Pixie writes "The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, located on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, has begun using a new 350 MegaPixel, wide-field camera called MegaPrime. This new camera, designed collaboratively by NRC-HIA in Canada, CEA and Observatoire de Paris in France, and CFHT in the US, will provide astronomers with extrodinary wide-field views of the heavens. Official press releases available at CFHT, NRC-HIA and CEA."

9 comments

  1. In other news by gnudutch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Optimus Prime and Megatron had a baby...

    1. Re:In other news by sigep_ohio · · Score: 1

      that was exactly what i was thinking.

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  2. Cool... by KDan · · Score: 1

    Maybe they'll be able to take a picture of God soon, if it keeps getting bigger! :-P

    Daniel

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  3. 350 Mp? by dacarr · · Score: 1

    Man, imagine the quality of that for just shooting things on the ground.

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    1. Re:350 Mp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The quality would suck because you wouldn't be able to get decent enough optics that would be sufficiently abboration free across that focal plane. Plus, with a 13.5 micron pixel size you'll get better picture quality with a hand held digital camera.

      However, image a Beowulf cluster of these...

  4. Follow-up of older article by mdielmann · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's the original. Looks like more cool eye candy in this one.

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  5. Reviews due in soon by SuperBanana · · Score: 1

    Rumor has it preproduction units will be showing up for ass-kissi^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H review at the major digital camera review websites.

    Astronomer 1:"Did you hear that?"
    Astronomer 2:"Yeah, sounded like a couple thousand Canon D10 owners saying 'Ahhhh CRAP'."

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