Vera Rubin: Super telescope's giant camera spies broccoli

Re:Vera Rubin: Super telescope's giant camera spies broccoli by gavin_gee on Thursday September 10, 2020 @08:27PM (#24438026)

is it me, or does the photo of broccoli look decidedly unimpressive in the article!

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Re:Vera Rubin: Super telescope's giant camera spies broccoli by ladberg on Thursday September 10, 2020 @09:48PM (#24438402)

It was made just to test the camera sensor without any lenses, just a pinhole. That means that the photo blurs relative to the size of the pinhole, which probably wasn't that small.

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Re:Vera Rubin: Super telescope's giant camera spies broccoli by jcims on Friday September 11, 2020 @09:15AM (#24442410)

To me the issue is all of the artifacts in the sensors. Obviously most of the time this is corrected in software but they look pretty rough.

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Re:Vera Rubin: Super telescope's giant camera spies broccoli by de_watcher on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:24AM (#24441499)

I hoped they're making photos of a broccoli from the orbit...

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Re:Vera Rubin: Super telescope's giant camera spies broccoli by prpl on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:44PM (#24438986)

These are just the first full-focal plane images, there's a lot of parts in the system that are set up for testing _the sensors_ and it's geared towards that.

https://www.lsst.org/content/detailed-features-pinhole-proje...

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Re:Vera Rubin: Super telescope's giant camera spies broccoli by rangibaby on Thursday September 10, 2020 @08:32PM (#24438050)

I bet it looks good at 100%

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