LSST

LSST camera filter exchange animation. (Windows Media Video file. Image credit: Kirk Gilmore, LSST Corporation)

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Isometric view of the LSST light path, showing the three mirror design. The optical design for the LSST employs three aspheric mirrors, which feed a 3-element correcting camera resulting in a 10 square-degree field of view covering a 64-cm diameter flat focal plane. The primary and tertiary mirrors are both concave. (Image credit: LSST Corporation)

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Optical layout of the LSST. This image shows the mirror's optics as well as the lenses in the camera, the filter placement, and the associated point spread functions. (Image credit: LSST Corporation)

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Design of the LSST camera, current as of Nov 2007. The LSST camera is designed to provide a wide field of view with better than 0.2 arcsecond sampling and spectral sampling in five or more bands from 400nm to 1060nm. The image surface is flat with a diameter of approximately 64 cm. The detector format will be a circular mosaic providing over 3 Gigapixels per image. The camera includes a filter mechanism and, if necessary, shuttering capability. The camera is positioned in the middle of the telescope. (Image credit: LSST Corporation)

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Building blocks of LSST's novel focal plane: Kirk Gilmore holds a silicon wafer with operating CCDs, and Paul O'Connor holds a model 3x3 CCD module with integral electronics. LSST's focal plane will be populated by 189 novel CCD imagers.

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Suzanne Jacoby with the LSST focal plane array scale model. The array's diameter is 64 cm. This mosaic will provide over 3 Gigapixels per image. The image of the moon (30 arcminutes) is placed there for scale of the Field of View. (Image credit: LSST Corporation)

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