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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."

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  1. 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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