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- rusty11, on 03/04/2009, -0/+10"3-billion pixel digital camera"
:O - lovemorgul, on 03/04/2009, -0/+9The telescope itself will be located in Chile where initial data processing.
- smilingcandle, on 03/04/2009, -0/+7What an exciting project...I would love to count the stars from a website.
- Narishma, on 03/04/2009, -0/+5By 'movie-like' do they mean science thrown out the window and replaced by special effects?
- divinediva, on 03/04/2009, -1/+6LSST is truly an Internet telescope.
- CosmicSombrero, on 03/04/2009, -0/+4They say that two of the mirrors are in construction at UofA right now, but this is a bit misleading. The primary and tertiary mirror surfaces are actually being ground into a single mirror blank - so essentially its one mirror with two figures.
The optical design is illustrated here:
http://www.lsst.org/files/image_gallery/images/tod ... - lnxfi, on 03/04/2009, -0/+3I'll wait for the 9-billion pixel digital camera.
- inactive, on 03/04/2009, -0/+3Nice, it's always good to advance humanity's knowledge of space in anyway possible. Thanks Bill!
- thefarside420, on 03/05/2009, -0/+3I have to wait 5 years for this?
- TomKarpik, on 03/04/2009, -0/+3Go outside.
- noisician, on 03/04/2009, -1/+4and look at the haze of light pollution?
- SoundJudgment, on 03/04/2009, -0/+2"And that chunk is Iridium48's fragment #28B. And over there is Comsat's fragment 89ZA. And way over there we have Amerisat 3C's fuselage-skin debris #68UA. What a beauty, eh? And look... down there just crossing the southern horizon is..."
- alexmensen, on 03/04/2009, -0/+2I cant wait to have all the google earth trollers now trolling the universe
- thelab101, on 03/04/2009, -0/+2my universe asplode.
- ddetina, on 03/04/2009, -0/+2I'm glad there are some things in life that are immune to this s**tty economy.
- Andrewbot, on 03/04/2009, -0/+2A tool bag!
- ChileanGoD, on 03/04/2009, -0/+2If you want to see stars shine, Chile is the place to be.
- DEA7HS, on 03/04/2009, -0/+1This is great news!
- h0ser, on 03/05/2009, -0/+1oh my goodness, this is amazing. Our eyes will finally be open instead of squinting.
- maceelk, on 03/04/2009, -0/+1kind of like the SSSD?
www.galaxyzoo.org ???? - Shogi, on 03/04/2009, -0/+1http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007 ...
- lovek, on 03/04/2009, -0/+1Know what's better than a movie-like window? An ACTUAL window. When do we get a telescope like that?
- JasonCox, on 03/04/2009, -0/+1I think I need a nap because I read that as 'Internet Telescope to Provide Movie-Like Window on Mr. Universe' and I was wondering 'WTF, didn't he die in Serenity?'
- bekindin09, on 03/04/2009, -0/+1You will be counting for a long time
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