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World's largest digital camera captures first astro imagery | At the heart of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile has snapped its first imagery – from test observations spanning a 10-hour window.


After more than two decades of planning and building, the world's largest digital camera at the heart of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile has snapped its first imagery – from test observations spanning a 10-hour window.

After more than two decades of planning and building, the world's largest digital camera at the heart of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile has snapped its first imagery – from test observations spanning a 10-hour window. The full Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera build was completed by early last year, shaping up to about the same size a small car. That happened in March of this year, with project director Aaron Roodman remarking that it signified "a pivotal moment for the teams from all around the world who collaborated to design and build the camera.

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