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Old March 13th 18, 02:52 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
RichA[_6_]
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Default That is one insane astro camera!

On Sunday, 11 March 2018 08:56:57 UTC-4, Chris.B wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 10:24:42 UTC+1, RichA wrote:
https://www.lsst.org/about

10,500mm f/1.25, 3GP sensor array and a 27ft diameter mirror.

Able to scan its whole sky in...3 nights?!


Wont it take twice the lifetime of the universe to crunch all the data?


Well, they could program a computer to just look for brightness variations in the images, that's a start.