The LSST Camera Lens is here!

Dianna Cowern, aka. Physics Girl, attended the LSST lens opening and interviewed some of the engineers, scientists and researchers here at SLAC.

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.