The LSST Camera Lens is here!
The largest high-performance optical lens ever fabricated (5.1 feet in diameter), seen arriving at SLAC, for the 3,200-megapixel digital camera of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The lens is mounted with a smaller companion lens (3.9 feet in diameter) in a carbon fiber structure. Both lenses have been built over the past five years by Boulder, Colorado-based Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. and its subcontractor, Tucson-based Arizona Optical Systems. Read more in the press release.
Credit:Jacqueline Orrell / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
About the Image
Id: | slac-48722303323_5296a4d64c_o |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | May 16, 2023, 9:07 a.m. |
Size: | 5760 x 3840 px |
About the Object
Name: | LSST Camera |
Category: | Vera C. Rubin Observatory |
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