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If anyone's worried that this "huge dataset" might be too much to handle on a home computer, it looks like it's around 5 MB if I clicked the right links.
by mcbits 10y ago
If anyone's worried that this "huge dataset" might be too much to handle on a home computer, it looks like it's around 5 MB if I clicked the right links.
- dghughes 10y agoThat's like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) it takes pictures of the entire southern sky every few nights using a 3 Gigapixel camera . It will do that for ten years and after that only gather 15TB of data. If you do the math it's more like 46TB but even so that seems low.
- mcbits 10y agoI assumed this was going to be thousands of images and 10s-100s of GB, so I started the download just to see how much it would be. Was pleasantly surprised when it was done as soon as it started.