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New Wide-Angle Telescope to Capture Night Sky
NewScientist is reporting that a new telescope located in Chile is aiming to capture images of the entire night sky every three nights. From the article: "The telescope will use a digital camera with 3 billion pixels to image the entire sky across three nights, producing an expected 30 terabytes of data per night. This will allow astronomers to detect objects that quickly change their position, such as near-Earth asteroids, or their brightness, such as supernovae."
Finally equipment good enought to catch the UFO's in action!!!
You should submit it to NASA!
They'll put up a few bittorrent files and name them "Jenna Jameson porn XXX" and such.
Great, So they've got a 3 Gigapixel camera. Always trying to one-up me, I see.
-gjr
I'd suggest multipart .RAR archives, and have someone generate a new NFO file every 3 days.
Yes but will the aliens be welcome?
Mods, please don't mod this up. Its bullshit. True that Forth was in *1976* was made the official language of the IAU, but no astronomer uses Forth these days, and there's no hint anywhere that the guys who run this telescope are going to be using it either.
And besides, you'd think they'd be up to Fifth or Sixth by now.
Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of 1000 3-Megapixel cameras taking pictures of the sky through telescopes, and do that every 3 nights. That's how impressive this project is going to be.
Oh You POS
These days Astronomers are more likely to use Python, Perl, C, C++, Java and other modern languages to write their data analysis tools in.
;)
Well, for the astronomers I support, I see use of Fortran (usually 77) more than anything. Maybe a little C or Perl, but none of the other stuff (excepting Python for stuff like Pyraf...). Unless you want to count iraf and/or IDL scripts as a programming language.
the paparazzi will be using it to view J-Lo's ass!
Libertas in infinitum
"... oh wait, those are just dead pixels. Sorry; Our bad."
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