CFH Telescope Gets New Wide-field Digital Camera

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."

In other news

[gnudutch]

Optimus Prime and Megatron had a baby...

Re:In other news

[sigep_ohio]

that was exactly what i was thinking.

Cool...

[KDan]

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

Daniel

350 Mp?

[dacarr]

Man, imagine the quality of that for just shooting things on the ground.

Follow-up of older article

[mdielmann]

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

Reviews due in soon

[SuperBanana]

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'."