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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