After having witnessed the longest Lunar Eclipse till date,i wondered what they actually used to click photographs of Moons,Planets,Stars,basically the Galaxy.
Was browsing over Gizmodo.com and it came to my notice was this :-
Was browsing over Gizmodo.com and it came to my notice was this :-
"Space photography requires a camera—a really big camera. One with 32 CCD sensors that snaps pictures at a mind-bending 268-megapixel resolution. Go ahead, you can call it the OmegaCam.
You may want to take this one home with you, but you can't. It weighs a whopping 1700lbs and produces about 30TBs of data per year. It's also the camera portion of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), which is the world's largest telescope designed to operate in visible light. It resides in the northern Chile and is part of the European Southern Observatory" via Gizmodo.com
268 MP cam can do it all !! Now thats invention ! :D
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