The LSST Camera (LSSTCam) was mounted on the Simonyi Survey Telescope in March 2025. LSSTCam will be used to take data for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time [Ivezić et al., …

LSSTCam is the only instrument used for the LSST, and its processed data products will be available for scientists to analyze. See also the camera webpage for a public audience. …

About the size of a small SUV, the LSST Camera is the largest camera ever constructed for astrophysics. It is a large-aperture, wide-field optical camera that is capable of viewing light …

Mar 14, 2025 · The LSST Camera is the largest digital camera ever built. Its 3,200-megapixel image sensor comprises 189 high-resolution CCD image sensors arranged across 21 …

From its mountaintop site, the LSST camera will image the entire visible sky every few nights, capturing changes over time from seconds to years. Ultimately, after 10 years of observation, …

Jun 26, 2025 · LSST is now a "backronym" for "Legacy Survey of Space and Time." According to its design team, this is the largest digital camera ever constructed—albeit one highly …

The LSST Camera is the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy and astrophysics. It was completed at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in 2024.

The LSST camera is designed to provide a wide field of view with better than 0.2 arcsecond sampling and spectral sampling in five or more bands from 400nm to 1060nm.

Mar 12, 2025 · Using the LSST Camera, Rubin Observatory will repeatedly scan the southern night sky for a decade, creating an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of the …

At the heart of that project is the largest digital camera ever built, the LSST Camera. Now installed on Rubin’s Simonyi Survey Telescope, it will capture a new image of the sky every 40 …