tracking asteroids with 1.4 billion pixel camera

[Florin Andrei]

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/21705/?a=f

The first of four new asteroid-tracking telescopes will come online next month in Hawaii, promising to quickly scan large swaths of the sky--thanks to the world's largest digital camera.

The project, known as the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS), aims to scan the entire sky visible from the summit of Mount Haleakala in Maui Island, Hawaii, three times a month, searching for asteroids and near-Earth objects (NEOs) as small as 300 meters in diameter. At the heart of each telescope is a 1.4-billion-pixel digital camera that can photograph broad swaths of the night sky in sharp detail.

 

[Joseph Ward]

http://pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/public/design-features/cameras.html

Ha! I laugh at that! Just Kidding. I often thought Red would make a great camera for Astronomers if they wanted.

 

[kidrobot]

The real question is, will it do 1080p and if so, is there any skew?

 

[Ramesh Jai]

The real question is, will it do 1080p and if so, is there any skew?

That's my concern too. What about audio?

 

[Julio Quintana]

That just made my Red One obsolete!!!

 

[David Morgan]

That just made my Red One obsolete!!!

Don't worry...we all know it's just vaporware.:shiftyph34r:

 

[Jason Ing]

You just ruined the Dec. 3rd announcement.

 

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

617 is busted!