570 Megapixel

[wolfnowl]

Pixel peeping anyone?

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/st_darkenergy_camera

[bill t.]

Around 1976 I got to take pictures of astronomer Vera Rubin at Lick Observatory somewhat after she had first detected something was wrong with galaxy rotation, which was the first evidence of dark matter.  Among other things she was actually taking mechanical measurements on large galaxy images projected through a giant telescope onto a white surface.  Things have come a long way since then.

Check out the National-Geographic-esque use of colored lights in that image, woohoo!  Looks like an early Star Trek episode.

[feppe]

Pixel peeping anyone?

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/st_darkenergy_camera

I bet its anti-aliasing filter makes it unusable for big prints.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I like the notion that, since we don't know what "dark energy" is, or even if it exists, we'll just take some pictures of it to find out what it is.

Come to think of it, some of my own photography is done in that same spirit.   

Eric

[tokengirl]

since we don't know what "dark energy" is, or even if it exists,

Of course it exists.  A couple of my family members have it and I have seen what it can do.    

[DarkPenguin]

Pixel peeping anyone?

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/st_darkenergy_camera

I hear nasa is slapping a lens chart up on Andromeda so that they can test this thing.

[francois]

I hear nasa is slapping a lens chart up on Andromeda so that they can test this thing.

True and I heard that they also use LensAlign Pro…