On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

If you've ever tried to take a photo of the moon and stars, you know that astrophotography is incredibly challenging. Although there are tips and tricks for taking astrophotos on your cell phone, to ...

On a mountaintop at the edge of the Atacama Desert in Chile, the world’s newest telescope is poised to begin a revolutionary survey of the southern hemisphere’s observable universe, one that promises ...

Technicians are putting the final touches on the world's largest digital camera at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The camera will be sent to Chile and installed on a telescope in the Andes.

Nine years and 3.2 billion pixels later, it is complete: the LSST Camera stands as the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy and will serve as the centerpiece of the Vera Rubin Observatory, ...

At 3 a.m. on a crisp May night in Chile, all seemed well with the world’s largest digital camera. Until it didn’t. Inside the newly built Vera C. Rubin Observatory, site project scientist Sandrine ...

Most cameras these days are UVC compliant. Designed for use on a telescope? That's removing the lens and quadrupling the price. Nothing else. Good for use on a telescope? That's a chilled sensor, a ...

We first heard of plans by the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to build a huge astro camera with a 3.2-gigapixel resolution way back in 2012. The world's largest digital ...

The Dangdangli Smart Astronomical Telescope TW2 has been launched on the Xiaomi Youpin crowdfunding platform. The impressive TW2 telescope combines a telescope and a digital camera in a single device.

If you've ever pointed your smartphone's camera skyward on a full moon, chances are you were pretty disappointed with the result. French smart telescope maker Vaonis is aiming to get you closer to the ...

Obtained by UB as part of a project to observe last year's total solar eclipse, the telescope will be used for education and ...