Largest Digital Camera

Is under construction - 3.2 gigapixels. Scheduled science first light - 2021
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope - Wikipedia

The plan is that the 3.2-gigapixel, f/1.23 digital camera will make a 15-second exposure every 20 seconds once its dark enough each sufficiently clear night.

 

Ugh. THREE mirrors? But I thought we were moving away from mirrors and towards mirrorless?

(Please note this is a joke. )

Very neat!

 

I thought it was funny that they called it a very wide 3.5 degree fov. I’m sure for a telescope that is very wide.


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Eh, I have one of those in my bag. The biggest pain is the tripod.

 

And people say me lenses are overkill!!

 

I wonder how ugly the bokeh's gonna be with THREE mirrors!

 

I don't know what a teraflop is or a petabyte

 

A flop is one instruction per second, so a standard SI teraflop is 1,000,000,000,000 instructions per second. Computer uses tend to use Binary numbers where 1024 is used instead of 1000 for each multiple - though they switch to base 10 when selling hard drives it makes them look bigger!

Peta is another step up from tera another factor of 1000. A petabyte is around 500x you'd get in a typical external drive these days (2TB drives are now common)

 

jeebus that's a lot of information. Computers and storage is starting to get nuts

 

Starting?


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For me at any rate. I was blown away that I could get a computer that has 1 terabyte of storage or a thumb drive that's 16 gigs. I don't know what people are doing to fill that space but ive had my comp since 2013ish and it maybe has 100 gigs used.