- News & Announcements
- March 2008: High Fire for the primary mirror.
- March 2008: Glass loading of primary mirror
- March 2008: LSST E-News, March 2008
- Jan 2008: LSST Receives $30M from Charles Simonyi and Bill Gates
- Jan 2008: LSST at the 2008 AAS meeting
- Nov 2007: M1/M3 Mirror Construction Pictures
- July 2007: LSST Receives $3 Million from Keck and TABASGO Foundations
- Jan 2007: Google joins Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project
- Oct 2006: P5 recommends moving ahead with LSST
- May 2006: Site in Northern Chile Selected for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
- Sept 2005: LSST receives $14.2 Million National Science Foundation Design and Development Award
- Help build the "New Sky" .
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a proposed ground-based
8.4-meter, 10 square-degree-field telescope that 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 billions of remote galaxies and measure the distortions
in their shapes produced by lumps of Dark Matter, providing multiple
tests of the mysterious Dark Energy.
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