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From TFA: > My camera sensor size is 35mm by 24mm. Multiplied by 12, we get 420mm by 288mm. That's, uh, 42cm by 29cm. It's, like, pretty big. That's the size o
by Tepix 6mo ago
From TFA:
> My camera sensor size is 35mm by 24mm. Multiplied by 12, we get 420mm by 288mm. That's, uh, 42cm by 29cm. It's, like, pretty big. That's the size of a painting you'd hang on your wall. This gives us two issues:
> Firstly, such a sensor simply doesn't exist. …
The Vera Rubins telescope camera has a diameter of 64cm!
<https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vera-rubin-observatory-digital-camera https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vera-rubin-observatory-d...>
- echoangle 6mo agoThat’s not a single CCD though. That’s an array of multiple smaller sensors that are next to each other, but there will be gaps where they meet. They take multiple pictures and combine them to make a regular image of the sky, something you probably can’t really do for photography (or videography of course).