World's Largest Camera, the 3.2-Gigapixel LSST, Is Complete
Engineers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have completed work on the Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera. The device is the world's largest digital camera and will be the centerpiece of a 10-year mission to map the night sky from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.
00:00 LSST camera
00:30 The worlds largest digital camera
01:28 How does the camera work?
02:19 The shutter
02:30 Dark energy and dark matter
02:59 The camera moves to Chile
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This will be on the Galaxy S29.
😅😅
No it will be in S69
Exactly 😂✋
Galaxy s30 man
S420
Finally a camera that can take portrait photo of yo mama.
Ayyyeeee 😂
you know this zooms in, not zooms out, so failed joke here
Then we have to take yo mama to space and then take a picture 😂😂
@@Seva98a even when zoomed in yo mama be the size of planets bruh lmao
"Where do we save the images to? E drive is full. Again."
Yes, where indeed :).
Load it up with 50tb ruler drives like they're sd cards. Lol it scales up linearly like tiny sd card tiny camera, giant camera... giant flash storage
@@98f5That will save about one image.
I’ll be excited in about 4,000 days from now.
Its gonna be attached to a new Earth Telescope in 2025 so not that far (but I get ur point)
@@shuttzi9878 This is so excitingin 2025 will be able to see insane images like similar to JWST?
@@AGuyNamedDan79I don’t think it has resolution as good as JWST, but the cool thing is that it’ll take pictures _constantly._ It’ll probably increase the number of know asteroids tenfold. If there’s a planet nine out there and it’s visible from the southern hemisphere, this thing will find it. It’ll capture all sorts of events that only last briefly, probably plenty that we’ve never even seen before!
It'll be a very boring movie though. If you think your bottom hurts after a 4 hour movie, try 10 years.
@@oberonpanopticon The resolution is actually better, so high in fact u could see a golf ball from 15 miles away without any zooming
IDK, Maybe you should have also made the world's largest lens cap and put it over the front glass.
But then they might forget to take it off and ruin the whole vacation. LOL! But seriously, that's actually a good idea. That is a clean room they're in, but still even a single spec of dust could ruin an image.
There is a thin exterior filter on it, you can see light reflecting off of it at 1:26 and also the mounting ring connectors.
Of course, the world’s largest lens also has the world’s largest lens cap. Over 5’ across and “only” 40 lbs
Why do you need a lens cap? There is nothing but light going to touch the lens.
@@deang5622 There is no lens, you see a sensor hood with a protective filter. this is a direct imaging camera- only a shutter and the sensor array.
Spotting a golfball 15 miles away? I leave it for the early adapters and gonna sit this out and wait for v2.
If your golfball is that far away, maybe it’s best just to take a penalty stroke and use a new golfball.
It doesn't sound impressive aye, since galaxies are a little further than 15miles away. Maybe wait for V3
@@devarmont87Imagine a golf ball 15 miles away, not on the ground but in the night sky. If your telescope can detect that, stars and galaxies of similar relative size and scale would be detectable as well.
@@uriituwAgree. It would probably be a bit misshaped after that drive anyway.
i doubt its designed to focus at 15 miles. its probably a relative arc-sec equivalence.
The bokeh effect at 10 feet away would be truly amazing.
the focal length is probably way further then that
Absolutely great, what a feast for the eyes and future knowledge it will be. Thanks for bringing this topic.
2:09 "two different shades of blue" i see like 5-7
Yes! I can't wait any longer to see the Camera at Work, Greetings from 🇨🇱
Eyy
The big eye in the sky ! What a tremendous gift of research to astronomers!!
extremely excited!
Ты родился весной и первый раз увидел снег зимой ? Телескоп Хаббл еще 9 лет назад снял Андромеду в 4.3 гигапикселя )) Загугли )
'the lenses are there to focus different wavelengths of light' - only when correcting lens aberration. Mirrors don't have this effect, which is why they are used, so the camera lenses are essentially there to allow a massive array to capture an area much smaller than itself. THAT is _why_ lenses are used, as opposed to mirrors.
Seeing space In the wide field, something new to look forward to.
Im hype, even if it takes a long long time. We may never truely see the full expanses of our universe in this lifetime, but I hope we go beyond the stars one day.
Infinity is a long way away. Are we there yet?
They say the observable universe is much smaller than the actual universe. Which means we will never see it. The galaxies beyond our view are moving away faster than the speed of light, so it seems unlikely that we will ever catch up.
There are more planets in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth.
@@zunedog31 Yup.
@@zunedog31 people always reference this as if its some astounding fact. Really doesn't seem that hard to believe
A 5-second video will occupy 10 GB of space.
The data processing for this thing is gonna be interesting, that’s for sure. But if they can make the LHC work with however many petabytes of data that thing generates, I’m sure they can manage this too.
more like 1/100 of a second
10gb if it's compressed down to garbage lol. They said they gonna make a 10 year movie with it. That's gonna be a thousand petabytes or something ridiculous
Fantastic! Front row seat, please.
Very exciting! More of these stories please! Thank you
Ты родился весной и первый раз увидел снег зимой ? Телескоп Хаббл еще 9 лет назад снял Андромеду в 4.3 гигапикселя )) Загугли )
We've some amazing instruments coming online this decade, both in space and on the ground. They will revolutionize astronomy & cosmology.
That for sure, not doubt about that ❤
to be honest, the ending was kind of underwhelming, I was expecting it to go to space to avoid being obscured by the atmosphere...
The thing already costs $680 million and you want to put it in space???
It's waaaaaay too big to put into space. The mirror is like 3x the size of Web and JWST already had to be folded to get it into space, this has much higher resolution also. They serve different purposes.
@@bobbygetsbanned6049 Самая большая камера ??? А как же Хаббл в 2015 году делал снимок Андромеды разрешением в 4.3 гигапикселя ???
@@homuchoghoma6789 I don't know the official megapixel rating for Hubble but it was launched in 1990, and from what I can find online it's more like 15 megapixels. Most likely the image you're talking about is a bunch of pictures stitched together, which is how the Hubble deep field image was made. So the image would have a high pixel count but the actual camera is much lower.
Looking forward to the movies it creates.
Well done all the engineers and scientists.
I envision a 360 gigantic camera simultaneously.
Can I borrow this for some “selfies”, need to make some things look bigger 😂
пенис? )
Excited!
Nice… man I like $ spent on space exploration …. Gets us all further from the cave👍👍👍🙏🙏
Good work
As a Chilean citizen I’m so proud that this amazing wonderful project will be launched in my country. You people are so talented and inspiring to all human kind. My most sincere thanks.🩷💙💜🌙❤️🌟🌈🌈🌈🌈
I have always been astonished with the heavens can't wait till next year
Yes, keep us informed.
Every group has that one friend with a separate case for his lens.
still cant see X button on ad
Great video...👍
I can't wait to take selfie with this.
Hope you got tons of storage space that's expandable...
Imagine if that camera put on a lower orbit!?? how amazing pictures we would received!!
Amazing technology ✌🤚
What an incredible feat. There was I thinking 0.555 NMA made sense, whereas this is clearly the video we are waiting for! HOORAY!
See a golfball from 15 miles away? Pffft CSI already had this tech 20 years ago, they can even zoom in a fingerprint on a hammer 😂
The trick about this camera is that it can see the golf ball without zooming in. It's the size of the image that's special, not the detail in zooming.
@@panner11 They're joking. Look up the CSI "enhance" meme.
Yes, indeed
magnificent
Ha do you think up and down the barrel of that camera if you get inside the barrel of a transformer you could also turn the spacing in between wavelengths backwards on different staging points
Excellent!👌👍 can't wait,just purchased a Samsung Galaxy AO5
Does it come with filter apps pre installed?
This is very exciting news!
Exciting, I can't wait to see it, but why not go bigger to start with? You know the next one will be.
Bleeding edge scientific instruments are cool o.o
Waiting for live telecast from that camera
can't wait to do realtime video satellite
Also if it drops in a satellite like a DirecTV or anything in that concept do you think you're also participating in like we had this puzzle piece it was colored inside out or outside in do you suspect your lens is going to do the same thing
Good thing with mosaic, easier to upgrade
And disable the malfunctioning parts if needed
"... can spot a golf ball 15 miles away"... Finally, Yeti and UFOs have got no chance now, it's game over!
Unfortunately Sasquatches and martians know where every camera on earth is, and know exactly how far away they have to be in order to appear suitably blurry
@@oberonpanopticon Plot twist they have cloaking tech like the predator and have been trolling us the whole time :)
Mind boggling kind of stuff.
Every now and they launch a gigantic piece of technology claiming it's gonna peer into the past, hailing it as a major breakthrough. But after a few years service again another piece is hailed as wonderful and launched! And whatever pictures are captured are not different from those captured 30 years ago!
can't wait!
Higher resolution in the visible light spectrum ≠ seeing farther than ever before. Thats what JWST is for.
Awesome👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻👏
Spots aliens in the next solar system. “Sorry, no selfies”
I need that on the next Xiaomi
after 20 years and it's still sitting there.
I need this on my phone
How cutting edge can a camera be that took 20 years to build?
validation against ISOs
@@profpuffofficial2 I have seen systems built for the USAF. By time it went operational, cpus and OSs were about 4 generations behind. I worked on one recently were we just upgraded from XP 2 years ago.
When will the macro lens be available?
Hey CNET, what music track did you use for this video? I love it, but Shazam isn’t picking up anything. I’d appreciate it so much if you told me! Thanks!
From 0:32 and for about a minute.
Billions of galaxies, but will it be able to get all of Sydney Sweeney in one shot?
I just watched a trailer for a movie that I probably won't live long enough to see. Bummer.
What was it? 😯
Do you have a terminal disease? The thing goes online in 2025 and begins full operations in 2027
@@oberonpanopticon The movie will take TEN YEARS to complete. I guess you didn't pay attention. Yes I have a terminal disease. It's called old age.
Very cool 👍
The best thing about this camera - during it's first year it will most probably discover planet 9.
Its for observatory in chile, I was wondering how they gonna make satellite big enough for the mirror.
0:49 Looks like we already have that technology.😀
This camera has IBM's original hard drive vibes
I think our universe gets colder and hotter and it expands when it is getting warmer and it contracts when it gets colder.
It would be interesting to see a video about the differences between this telescope and the j webb telescope.
I saw this on another page a month ago.
A golf ball from 15 miles away is impressive but that pales in comparison to the universes size
imagine the processing power required omg
Christopher Nolan: I'll take your entire stock!
What it will further add to JWST??
Xiaomi 15 Plus X Ultra looks a bit oversized to me. But that golfball teleshot was impressive.
Fun fact: if we wanted to image the Earth from space, with a single photo, down to 1m resolution…we’d need a camera with about 130 terapixels. So it’d have to be about 40,000 times more pixels than this camera. That’d make that future camera be about 200 times wider than this camera. If historical camera trends were to continue (which is a big if) it’ll take about 30 years for cameras to become so big that they could image the entire Earth down to 1 meter with a single photo.
The camera was tested for 20 years before getting to this point. How much has digital photography advanced in that time? A lot! Still, it will be interesting to see the results.
It has been planning AND engineering AND testing over 20 years (said at 0:20) and not just tested over 20 years. So it's not like this camera was built 20 years ago and has been tested ever since.
The high cost is due to maintenance work for 20 years on the building its housed in 😂
It doesn't matter how much digital photogrphyvhas advanced in that time. This camera is bigger in terms of pixel count than every other spaced based camera before it. You just can't take commercial digital SLR cameras and put them into space. And you can't scrap this project and say "we'll start from scratch and use newer digital imaging chips and technology as that will then add another ten years to the project...and if you do that, your same argument applies, during that time digital photography has moved on and you will be expecting them to abandon the project again. If you keep on applying that logic, the camera will never make it into space.
The consumer-grade digital photography advanced in different areas. Like, making the sensors smaller - which is not the point here, they need it big because they need to capture the distant light sources which are feint, so you want to capture as much light as possible. And it mostly advanced in software like, the SW used for autofocus, color corrections (white balance etc), which is presumably mostly irrelevant (the focus will be set to infinity constantly and the colors shown to public in space photos are not real anyway) Some of the aspects are basically the same as 20 years ago - unless there was some breakthrough in glass-making process, then making the lenses is no different. I would say the 20 years was mostly bureaucracy (getting the funds, vendor contracts, etc), then engineering and prototyping, and the sensors might have been manufactured recently (they might have used smaller or fewer for proofs of concept in the meantime)
Actually - not that much. Most of the innovations have been in areas that are not that important for something like this - i.e. video, auto focus speed, sensor read out speed. I have images from a 20 year old digital camera that are pretty damn good even by todays standards.
can't wait to see this on my 256K screen in about 40 years
Finally a camera to make a picture of your mum
So... ZWO SeeStar 1500 Pro? Where can I buy one?
They’re gonna need a giant photographer to use that.
They should put this in space instead but the data transfer is probably too slow including other factors.
TONEH in this camera will be huge
Does it have a Canon mount or do I need an adapter?
Sold separately of course
Imagine taking a selfie with that
Think you would have to stand 15 miles away! lol
i hope it's all it's hyped to be.
The size of the files coming of the nikon d810 16bit uncompressed give me ptsd. I can't imagine what the file sizes are gonna be like off this camera.
Oh wow, so this one isn’t going into space? That’s really amazing because it means they’re going to have to remove the atmosphere through software post-processing! Technology has come so far!!!
Iirc most of the atmospheric distortions can be filtered out via adaptive optics
I thought the world's largest digital camera was at the Large Hadron Collider. Pictures I have seen would dwarf this one.
I'm excited, but can this do anything different than other high-end observatories?
Yes. It’s a next generation survey telescope - it’ll take of about a million images of the entire southern sky over the course of around 5 years. It’ll let us see basically anything that’s moving, and plenty of transient events that we might’ve otherwise missed.
@@oberonpanopticon hopefully it's also good at spotting asteroids too
what does a picture taken with a 32 GIGAPIXEL camera even look like?! Crazy cool stuff, and space is certainly the appropriate use for the tech. Hope to see the results some day!
Giant multi-gigabyte (around 6.5 GB) uncompressed monochromatic photos of space, and one version of the same image for each of the filters. Then all of that is transfer to computer clusters to be post-processed into data or images. The only thing I would like to know is how to send all that data, but I imagine it would like transporting the hard drives due to the size of all the operation each year, around 1.28 petabytes or 1.28 million gigabytes of data. And while here in Chile we have really fast and affordable internet (I have 600 Mbps at home, and hoping this year I could move to fiber optic), I don't think not enough to send the files though the wires 😅
@@EduardoEscarez That is indeed an incredible amount of data to be managing/transferring. Very cool.
Хотелось бы видеть фото материал от первоисточника, не редактированные, которых в интернете 99%.
Sick! really good!
So how it this better than the bigger telescopes we already have? Is it because it can cover much more area quickly(while still capturing fine detail)?
Bingo
Does it come with a Nikon lens mount?
I want to take a selfie with my favourite celebrity with this 😂