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March

First Blast on El Penón

First Blast was a spectacular event as documented in these images. The white line in the upper image shows how much material must ultimately be removed to provide the platform for LSST.
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January

Lens Simulations

100-frame short segments of MPEG movies depict our view, over the next half billion years, of a cluster of galaxies and the effects of its dark matter.
File LENS0_hires.mpg
File LENSMAX_hires.mpg
November

Image Simulation

The movie shows photons from a faint star that refract through turbulence in the atmosphere, bounce of the LSST mirrors, pass through the camera lenses, and convert into photoelectrons in the silicon pixels of the LSST camera.
November

High Definition Movie

High Definition fly around animation of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) on it's site on Cerro Pachòn in Chile.
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July

LSST 2008 Blue Animation

You're watching the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST, an 8.4-meter telescope that will be operational from a mountaintop in Chile. The LSST will map the sky every three nights with its three-billion pixel digital camera.
July

LSST Lid Lift

The oven lid is about to be opened for the first time in three months. This will reveal the primary and tertiary mirrors of the LSST.
File lid_lift.m4v
January

LSST Update 2008 Arizona Illustrated (KUAT)

Arizona Illustrated segment from January 2008 describing LSST Project. Produced by KUAT at The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
March

LSST High Fire from UC Davis News Watch

UC Davis News Watch. A video produced by UC Davis about the LSST High Fire (when the glass is hot enough to melt).
March

LSST Mirror Glass Melt

You're watching hot glass melt inside the rotating oven of the University of Arizona's Mirror Lab.
File glass_melting.m4v
January

Google Joins Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project

Google becomes an Institutional Member of LSST, as described in this KUAT Arizona Illustrated story.

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Financial support for Rubin Observatory comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Cooperative Agreement No. 1258333, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515, and private funding raised by the LSST Corporation. The NSF-funded Rubin Observatory Project Office for construction was established as an operating center under management of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA).  The DOE-funded effort to build the Rubin Observatory LSST Camera (LSSTCam) is managed by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC).
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science. NSF supports basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future.
NSF and DOE will continue to support Rubin Observatory in its Operations phase. They will also provide support for scientific research with LSST data.   




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