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Vera Rubin: Super telescope’s giant camera spies broccoli – BBC News
The camera detector for the Vera Rubin Observatory takes its first test images in the laboratory.
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A head of Romanesco recorded across the 3,200 megapixels of Vera Rubin’s camera detector
How do you test the new sensor for the world’s largest digital camera? You take a picture of broccoli, of course.
This might sound bizarre but the intricate shapes found in the Romanesco version of this plant are a good check that you’re capturing lots of detail.
And for the camera that’s to be fitted to the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile – performa…
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