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The largest high-performance optical lens ever fabricated (5.1 feet in diameter), seen arriving at SLAC, for the 3,200-megapixel digital camera of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The lens is mounted with a smaller companion lens (3.

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English: The largest high-performance optical lens ever fabricated (5.1 feet in diameter), seen arriving at SLAC, for the 3,200-megapixel digital camera of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The lens is mounted with a smaller companion lens (3.9 feet in diameter) in a carbon fiber structure. Both lenses have been built over the past five years by Boulder, Colorado-based Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. and its subcontractor, Tucson-based Arizona Optical Systems. Read more in the press release.
Date 16 May 2023, 09:05 (upload date)
Source The LSST Camera Lens is here!
Author Farrin Abbott / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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