BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Powerful telescope set for Chile

"A large telescope that will scan the entire visible sky every three nights is to be
built on a mountain in Chile.

The 8.4m (28ft) Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be 50 times as powerful
as other survey telescopes."

More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5004294.stm
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So when will amateurs get a version of those f1 optics for imaging?!

:-)
Paul
"Nick" wrote in message
...
"A large telescope that will scan the entire visible sky every three
nights is to be
built on a mountain in Chile.

The 8.4m (28ft) Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be 50 times as
powerful
as other survey telescopes."

More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5004294.stm
--
Nick in Northallerton
Also @ www.whelan.me.uk
And nickw7coc on
Yahoo & MSN
but I use http://www.trillian.cc as I like it better
also on Skype and Google talk

Nick wrote in
:

"A large telescope that will scan the entire visible sky every three
nights is to be built on a mountain in Chile.

The 8.4m (28ft) Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be 50 times
as powerful as other survey telescopes."

More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5004294.stm

Here is the LSST website:

http://www.lsst.org/lsst_home.shtml

Which shop can I buy one of those 3.2 giga pixel cameras from?

Klazmon.