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Fermilab Builds 500-Megapixel Camera
heyitsme writes "Fermilab, a U.S. Department of Energy research lab, is part of a collaboration on an experiment to measure the properties of dark energy. The Dark Energy Survey would measure the history of the expansion rate of the universe more precisely than ever before, using the largest camera ever built with Charge Coupled Devices (CCD). The 500 megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) would be placed on an existing 4-meter telescope located in north-central Chile at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The DECam together with the CTIO 4-meter telescope will allow for a survey of 15 percent of the sky to light levels faint enough to measure the colors of galaxies at redshift one."
That they were able to save money by using an existing telescope.
Because the compact flash cards for this thing cannot be cheap.
cool but does it fit in my pocket?
im going to japan soon and i need a good camera......
I dont EVER want to be photographed in that much detail !!
in Photoshop, it be a sight to behold. Or even better, embed one of these pics in a pdf file and EMAIL it to a friend. Ah yes good times for admins, systems, and users everywhere to enjoy!
"There is no real right or wrong, just what the majority accepts at the time."
Finally something that has higher system requirements than Longhorn!!!
Even at this level of digital imaging, it has a weak, useless flash, intolerable low light noise, and sucks batteries in no time. Actually, I'm really looking forward to seeing the images this thing captures
Yeah, I guess I'm funny like that.
(Not an expert, they're all fast asleep right now.)
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Time to dig up the old Digital icon?
Is there Linux support for it?
Hmm.. Attach a pair of 5$ binoculars to your 106$ scanner and you have your personal deep-space telescope!
Now attach that to a $1 paper airplane and you have DIY Hubble! yay!
total cost: 106$
Makes you wonder how NASA managed to spend
so much on Hubble!
..autiful picture this thing can take.
Oh, I can't take it! BEOWULF CLUSTER! There, I said it!
[Person A]I told you before, megapixels don't matter... [Person B]But it's 500 Megapixels... [Person A]500 megapixels, 5 megapixels... it doesn't matter. Everyone knows that. It's common knowledge that megapixels is just a marketing trick. [Person B]But... [Person A]Look I read slashdot and everyone says the same. [Person B]ok...
5 Megapixels would be enough for anyone?
Scientist: Shouldn't the telescope be pointing into
deep space rather than at that satellite with the
big mirror on it?
NRO guy: Nah, this is good.
You're doing it wrong. You're supposed to masterbate furiously, not efficiently.
How can they tell a picture of dark energy apart from a picture where they just forgot to take the lens cap off?
Chelloveck
I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
Didn't take long for somebody to come up with a use for that Cisco router...
I heard that the 502 mega-pixel camera is coming out in six months.
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Hmmm...so... what kind of flash do I need?
It's supposed to be completely automatic, but actually you have to press this button.
I was expecting red shift .5 capabilities...
Better Yet, Why don't you just register coolAstroPicture_210@gmail.com and store your picture there. Total cost per gig of storage, nothing. Thanks google!
The Neo-Bohemian Techno-Socialist