Scientists in the US say they have built the world’s largest digital camera. The camera, which the team worked on for several years in a laboratory in the US state of California, is about the size of a small car and weighs three tons, the National Accelerator laboratory in Palo Alto announced on Wednesday. The construct is intended for use in astronomy.
In total, the camera has 189 sensors and 3.2 gigapixels – and could therefore capture a golf ball from a distance of 24 kilometers, according to the researchers. The largest lens of the camera has a diameter of almost 1.60 meters.
Once completed, the product, which will cost around $168 million (about €155 million), will be installed in an observatory in the Chilean Andes. The camera will then image the southern sky and collect data for ten years.
“We will soon produce the best film and the most informative map of the night sky ever,” said observatory director Željko Ivezić.
Source: Krone
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