SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory Test Camera Sees the Sky
October 31, 2024
October 31, 2024
MENLO PARK, California, Oct. 31 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release:
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The observatory's practice camera has captured its first on-sky data.
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NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory passed its first end-to-end engineering test using a low-resolution testing camera known as the Commissioning Camera. The Commissioning Camera will later be replaced with the much higher resolution LSST Camera, the larges . . .
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The observatory's practice camera has captured its first on-sky data.
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NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory passed its first end-to-end engineering test using a low-resolution testing camera known as the Commissioning Camera. The Commissioning Camera will later be replaced with the much higher resolution LSST Camera, the larges . . .