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LSST Makes a Strong Showing at AAS
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Tuesday - January 18, 2011 |
LSST Makes a Strong Showing at AASSLACers of many stripes attended the 217th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle last week, and one of the big draws was the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. The giant telescope enjoyed increased visibility at the conference, due in large part to its lead position among ground-based observatories in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, also known as Astro2010, released last August. Kirk Gilmore, with the joint SLAC-Stanford Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, presented a paper on one of the LSST's biggest attention grabbers—its camera. Gilmore is a member of the SLAC team leading the design of the camera, which, when constructed, will be the largest digital camera in the world at more than nine feet long and four and a half feet in diameter and weighing more than 6600 pounds. Gilmore discussed progress on the camera design, as well as some of the unique challenges facing the design team, such as filter coatings that must be applied with a high degree of accuracy and detector chips that must be fabricated with surface imperfections measured in microns or less. Read more... Your Feedback Wanted for the
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