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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Hillary K. Grigonis

The car-sized camera that can see a golf ball from 15 miles away is nearly ready to start taking epic images of the galaxy

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera being installed by by a crew at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

The world’s largest digital camera ever made has now been installed and could start photographing the galaxy as early as next month. The Legacy of Space and Time (LSST) is a car-sized, 3,200MP camera designed to detect faint celestial objects as it captures a decade-long timelapse.

The camera has now finished the installation process at the Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile and is ready to begin final testing before capturing its first celestial images.

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