- News & Announcements
- July 2008: Call for US Scientists to Join Science Collaborations
- June 2008: LSST E-News, June 2008.
- March 2008: Primary mirror construction.
- Jan 2008: LSST Receives $30M from Charles Simonyi and Bill Gates
- Jan 2008: LSST at the 2008 AAS meeting
- July 2007: LSST Receives $3 Million from Keck and TABASGO Foundations
- Jan 2007: Google joins Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project
- May 2006: Site in Northern Chile Selected for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
- Sept 2005: LSST receives $14.2 Million National Science Foundation Design and Development Award
- Help build the "New Sky" .
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a proposed large aperture,
ground-based, wide field survey telescope designed to provide digital
images of faint astronomical objects across the entire sky, night
after night.
It will have an 8.4-meter primary mirror with effective collecting area
equivalent to a 6.7-m diameter unobstructed primary and a field of view
of 10 square-degrees.
In a relentless campaign of 15 second exposures with its 3.2 Giga pixel
camera, the LSST will cover the available sky every three nights,
opening a movie-like window on objects that change or move on rapid
timescales: exploding
supernovae, potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, and distant
Kuiper Belt Objects. The superb images from the LSST will also be
used to trace billions of remote galaxies and measure the distortions
in their shapes produced by lumps of Dark Matter, providing multiple
tests of the mysterious Dark Energy.
Learn more on the LSST Tour or read our
overview paper.
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frequently asked questions.
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Internal Project Webpages.