Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Last week, summit staff successfully installed Rubin Observatory's combined primary/tertiary mirror 🤩
With all three mirrors and the commissioning camera now in place, we officially—for the first time in 15 years of construction—have a complete telescope! Next step: get this telescope on-sky!🌌
This isn't the telescope's final form though. This iteration has the commissioning camera — a smaller 144-megapixel version of Rubin's huge, 3200-megapixel camera — which is used for testing and troubleshooting.
Rubin's LSST Camera, the biggest digital camera in the world that will capture the cosmos in science operations, will be installed early next year after our summit staff complete the next round of tests.
Congratulations to the Rubin Team, and major thanks to our incredible summit staff for all of their hard work!
Credit:
Rubin Observatory
#Astronomy #RubinObservatory
Last week, summit staff successfully installed Rubin Observatory's combined primary/tertiary mirror 🤩
With all three mirrors and the commissioning camera now in place, we officially—for the first time in 15 years of construction—have a complete telescope! Next step: get this telescope on-sky!🌌
This isn't the telescope's final form though. This iteration has the commissioning camera — a smaller 144-megapixel version of Rubin's huge, 3200-megapixel camera — which is used for testing and troubleshooting.
Rubin's LSST Camera, the biggest digital camera in the world that will capture the cosmos in science operations, will be installed early next year after our summit staff complete the next round of tests.
Congratulations to the Rubin Team, and major thanks to our incredible summit staff for all of their hard work!
Credit:
Rubin Observatory
#Astronomy #RubinObservatory
