Scientists capture largest digital photo ever taken in a single shot

This is gigantic!

"Once installed at Rubin Observatory in Chile, the camera will produce panoramic images of the complete Southern sky—one panorama every few nights for 10 years. ... But the LSST Camera focal plane is much more sophisticated. In fact, it contains 189 individual sensors, or charge-coupled devices, that each bring 16 megapixels to the table ... The focal plane has some truly extraordinary properties. Not only does it contain a whopping 3.2 billion pixels, but its pixels are also very small—about 10 microns wide—and the focal plane itself is extremely flat, varying by no more than a tenth of the width of a human hair. ... the imaging sensors will be able to spot objects 100 million times dimmer than those visible to the naked eye—a sensitivity that would let you see a candle [light] from thousands of miles away."

Scientists capture largest digital photo ever taken in a single shot | symmetry magazine Crews at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have taken the first 3200-megapixel digital photos—the largest ever taken in a single shot—with an extraordinary array of imaging sensors that will become the heart and soul of the future camera of Vera C. Rubin Observatory.