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Old March 15th 18, 11:07 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default That is one insane astro camera!

On Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 5:56:57 AM UTC-7, 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?


Just use Bitcoin mining machines all over the world, feed them with star database and give some reward to miners if they find something in the sky interesting.
Am I genius or what?