CFH Telescope Gets New Wide-field Digital Camera 9

Posted by chrisd on Thursday April 10, 2003 @03:08AM from the hate-the-megapixel-term dept.

Pixie writes "The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, located on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, has begun using a new 350 MegaPixel, wide-field camera called MegaPrime. This new camera, designed collaboratively by NRC-HIA in Canada, CEA and Observatoire de Paris in France, and CFHT in the US, will provide astronomers with extrodinary wide-field views of the heavens. Official press releases available at CFHT, NRC-HIA and CEA."

CFH Telescope Gets New Wide-field Digital Camera

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In other news (Score:5, Funny)

by gnudutch ( 235983 ) writes: on Thursday April 10, 2003 @03:48AM (#5699816)

Optimus Prime and Megatron had a baby...

- Re:In other news (Score:1)
  
  by sigep_ohio ( 115364 ) writes:
  
  that was exactly what i was thinking.
Cool... (Score:1)

by KDan ( 90353 ) writes:

Maybe they'll be able to take a picture of God soon, if it keeps getting bigger! :-P

Daniel
350 Mp? (Score:2)

by dacarr ( 562277 ) writes:

Man, imagine the quality of that for just shooting things on the ground.
Follow-up of older article (Score:3, Informative)

by mdielmann ( 514750 ) writes: on Thursday April 10, 2003 @10:02AM (#5701820) Homepage Journal

Here's [slashdot.org] the original. Looks like more cool eye candy in this one.

Reviews due in soon (Score:2)

by SuperBanana ( 662181 ) writes:

Rumor has it preproduction units will be showing up for ass-kissi^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H review at the major digital camera review websites.
Astronomer 1:"Did you hear that?"
Astronomer 2:"Yeah, sounded like a couple thousand Canon D10 owners saying 'Ahhhh CRAP'."

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Cool... (Score:1)

350 Mp? (Score:2)

Follow-up of older article (Score:3, Informative)

Reviews due in soon (Score:2)

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