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Arrival and inspection of the L3 lens of the LSST Camera

The LSST’s camera will include a filter-changing mechanism and shutter. This animation shows that mechanism at work, which allows the camera to view different wavelengths; the camera is capable of viewing light from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared (0.3-1 μm) wavelengths.

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera’s focal plane has a surface area large enough to capture a portion of the sky about the size of 40 full moons.

The Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera will take enormously detailed images of the night sky from atop a mountain in Chile.

View into the LSST cryostat assembly.

Mechanical engineer Travis Lange carefully watches the installation of the 14th  raft tower modules.

Jeff Tice, background, holds the particle counter while Travis Lange inspects the surface of the r-band optical filter for dust particles. 

From left, Travis Lange, Hannah Pollek and LLNL’s Justin Wolfe inspect LSST Camera optic filters.

An artist's rendering of the LSST Camera showing its major components including lenses, sensor array, and utility trunk.

SLAC's LSST team carefully unpack, examine, test and store the r-band filter, the first of six optic filters that will be part of the completed LSST Camera.