This video highlights recent work on the LSST cryostat.
how do you cool a 3.2 gigapixel camera
build a state-of-the-art refrigeration
system that's John he's part of a team
of slack scientists that have just
completed the cooling system an optical
bench for the world's largest camera
ever constructed okay okay
for astronomy this refrigerator
maintains perfect operating temperatures
so that all 189 of the 16 megapixel
sensors can continually snap snap snap
now all of the sensors will be mounted
on this ceramic plate it provides the
extremely flat surface to combine all
189 sensors into one giant focal plane
next stop for the cryostat a mountaintop
Observatory in Chile
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Farrin Abbott/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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An artist's rendering of the LSST Camera showing its major components including lenses, sensor array, and utility trunk.
A front view of the completed LSST Camera, showing the 3,200-megapixel focal plane within.
The LSST camera will sit atop Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope high in the Andes of Chile.
An artist's rendering of the LSST Camera showing its major components including lenses, sensor array, and utility trunk.
A front view of the completed LSST Camera, showing the 3,200-megapixel focal plane within.
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