LSST

LSST Animation

This 35 second, 3-D animation depicts the LSST with optical and structural designs (as of October 2007). The mount of the LSST offers unique design challenges driven by requirements for fast slew and settle time, tracking accuracy, and tight alignment tolerances. It must be possible to point the telescope quickly and repeatedly to adjacent field locations. (Image credit: LSST Corporation)

Format: AVI
Movie: 86.0 MB

LSST Design

Design of LSST Telescope, current as of November 2007. The proposed ground-based 8.4-meter, 9.6-square-degree field telescope will provide digital imaging of faint astronomical objects across the entire sky, night after night. In a relentless campaign of 15-second exposures, LSST will cover the available sky every three nights, opening a movie-like window on objects that change or move on rapid timescales: exploding supernovae, potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, and distant Kuiper Belt Objects. The superb images from the LSST will also be used to trace the apparent distortions in the shapes of remote galaxies produced by lumps of Dark Matter, providing multiple tests of the mysterious Dark Energy. (Image credit: LSST Corporation)

Side View (JPEG): 4000 x 3000, 428 kB
HiRes (TIFF): 4000 x 3000, 45.1 MB

Front view

HiRes (TIFF): 900 x 675, 1.8 MB

Design of LSST Telescope dome and local facilities, current as of January 2007. Google Inc. has joined with nineteen other organizations to build the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, scheduled to see first light atop Cerro Pachon in Chile in early 2014. (Image Credit: Michael Mullen Design, LSST Corporation)

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Normal: 250 x 197, 28 kB
HiRes: 3000 x 2282, 3.5MB

LSST Homepage background image. (Image credit: LSST Corporation, Bryn Feldman)

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Image: 768 x 435, 126 kB

Logo for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. (Image credit: LSST Corporation)

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Normal: 250 x 78, 30.8 kB
HiRes: 1012 x 316, 254.17 kB