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How to acquire a 3200 megapixel image
November 10, 2020
We supplied optics and cameras to the LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) project, in order to build an unprecedented CCD sensor.
In the early 2000s, the LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) project took shape for the creation of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (Chile) equipped with a telescope with the largest CCD sensor camera ever built in the astronomical field.
Opto Engineering® took part in this very important project by supplying four telecentric lenses and four cameras which allowed the alignment and precision assembly of the array composed of 189 individual sensors of the maxi camera which will be positioned inside the telescope. In September 2020, the first image was acquired in the laboratory with a resolution of 3200 megapixels.
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How to acquire a 3200 megapixel image
We supplied optics and cameras to the LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) project, in order to build an unprecedented CCD sensor.
Telecentric optics used by Nobel Prize winner Prof. Yamanaka
Opto Engineering® provided optics used for the experiments on the programming of adult somatic cells into stem cells, which allowed professor Yamanaka to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2012.
TC16M308 is the largest telecentric lens ever produced
We are testing the prototype of a new telecentric lens for 35 mm sensors, with a front diameter of 417 mm and a FoV diameter of 372 mm: TC16M308!
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