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The instruments aren't really high bandwidth. If you take NIRCam as an example, it's 40 megapixels with an observation time per image that is from 4 minutes up
by semi-extrinsic 5y ago
The instruments aren't really high bandwidth. If you take NIRCam as an example, it's 40 megapixels with an observation time per image that is from 4 minutes up to 3 hours.
- nullc 5y agoOnly the NIRcam has that many pixels, the other instruments have far fewer I believe. They will make up for the smaller numbers of pixels per (long) exposure by running the thing constantly. Check out the sort of images they produced with the 128x128 pixel sensor on spitzer: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Andromeda_galaxy_Ssc2005-20a1.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Andromed...