(06-29-2025, 03:51 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: Starts at 57:50 / slideshow begins at 1:24:25. I did not know this is the world's largest camera.
Beginning later this year, Rubin will create the ultimate movie of the night sky, repeatedly scanning the sky for a decade to create an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition, time-lapse record of our Universe across space and over time. The resulting dataset, called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will be the largest ever amassed for optical astronomy.
Rubin Skyviewer App
The time lapse aspect intrigues me. While I doubt that much will be discovered in only 10 years as a result of it, due to the massive size of the universe couples with it's very slow motion relative to size, it's still an intriguing thought. I wonder how long it takes for the observatory to complete a single "frame" of the time lapse - in other words, how many frames for a time lapse will be captured in 10 years?
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