New Internet Telescope on Cerro Pachon: the LSST

[Judi Lynn]

New Internet Telescope on Cerro Pachon: the LSST
April 9th, 2011, 08:12 GMT| By Tudor Vieru

By 2014, the world's first Internet telescope will be constructed high up in the Chilean Andes. The instrument will pour terabytes of data directly into the hands of individual users, with no restrictions on the data being supplied.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be constructed in the Atacama Desert, atop Cerro Pachon, and one of its neighbors will be the Gemini South Telescope. The new facility will be located at an altitude of about 2,700 meters (8,900 feet).

The construction effort is partially funded by a grant made available by Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Charles Simyoni. The latter is the developer of the Word and Excel office suites.

They provided $30 million for the LSST, which will be a visible-light observatory. It will be able to image the entire visible sky once per week, and will use a 3.2-gigapixel camera to conduct its investigations, Daily Galaxy reports.

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Cerro Pachon, Atacama Desert, Chile