The largest digital camera ever built for ground-based astronomy, the 3.2-gigapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time Camera is the size of a small...


Researchers examine the LSST Camera. The camera will soon be shipped to Chile, where it will be the heart of the Vera C. Rubin...

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...

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...

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


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.

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