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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

With 771 kg camera 268 million pixels of Star photos

for amateur astronomers, and can be taken with a digital SLR camera with access to the telescope would have been very satisfied with the stars, but do you know what Astronomical Institute will use equipment? Answer is OmegaCam, a huge weight of 771 kg of camera, and match of the world's largest telescope: VST. This huge camera uses 32 separate CCD, comprising a 268 million pixel sensor, annual capture 30Tb of photo files. Above is the "Monster" first photo shoot.

click here to download this high resolution photo (16M).