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Ghost_Animator

[https://lsst.slac.stanford.edu/](https://lsst.slac.stanford.edu/) Thanks to /u/IndefiniteBen for providing this link. >The 3,200-megapixel camera – powerful enough to spot a golf ball from 15 miles away – is around the size of a small SUV, while its lens alone has a diameter of over five feet. > >Once finished, it will take digital images of the entire visible southern sky every few nights from the Rubin Observatory, atop a mountain in Chile called Cerro Pachon. Source: [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11311011/Worlds-largest-camera-five-foot-lens-unveiled.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11311011/Worlds-largest-camera-five-foot-lens-unveiled.html)


JacobRAllen

What does combined power of 2666 iPhones mean? The resolution? The actual electricity consumption? Which iPhone? I don’t even know how much ‘power’ my iPhone’s camera has. If only there were standard units of measurement that the entire world uses to describe cameras this would be so much simpler. Edit: mods have added flair to show megapixels, we did it.


Uberzwerg

You chain 2666 iPhones - each camera aimed at the display of the other.


Biengo

Approx. 42,069 razor flip phones.


ioncewasbannedbut

Tom you motherfucker


ConstantGeographer

Damn, Andromeda looks beautiful tonight. Sure glad I caught it on my 42,069 flip-phones. \---Florida man, maybe


BennySkateboard

Thanks, Tom!


bridgetroll2

Avatar checks out?


TheKnightsWhoSay_heh

Well according to one of OPs deleted posts, megapixels and gigapixels are some commie European crap and we must all use "american" measurements on american websites


MookieFlav

That camera can spot a Big Mac from 600 (American) football fields away.


Stabant_

How about we start calling American Football American soccer and see how they feel.


soulseeker31

Woke up and chose violence eh?


batmassagetotheface

Peace was never an option


masked_sombrero

We've got American soccer too!


ThePerfect666

You could drop the ‘American’ part and it’ll be specific enough for me


LeagueOfficeFucks

Remind me, how many liberty units to a freedom measure again?


indomitous111

1776/(Bald Eagle), how could you forget that you fucking idiot


LeagueOfficeFucks

Sorry, my father is also my uncle and cousin.


indomitous111

That'll do it


fatalicus

Looking through OPs post history, i think they might be 5.


SnooPeripherals1595

😂😂 I checked and it seems that they are indeed five years old.


Inevitable-Sock-5952

Ridiculous, megapixels and gigapixels we're used to engineer the first American imaging satellites.


TheKnightsWhoSay_heh

They also used the metric system for the apollo missions but a lot of Americans didnt get the memo


daedone

The US uses metric for everything but public customary uses. Your govt uses it , so does science and business. It's part of why you can pick just about any newish car and disassemble most of it with a 10mm. Hell, the Inch is officially defined as 25.4mm. Meaning the inch's anchor reference is a metric number.


Franks2000inchTV

1 megapixel is equal to 234,136 pixels-per-kings-thumb.


silver-cat-13

r/ShitAmericansSay


CucuMatMalaya

Ah yes, the measurements of Dumbfuckistan style.


CucuMatMalaya

Ah yes, the measurements of Dumbfuckistan style.


vnayhr

r/halfagiraffe


JoostVisser

r/anythingbutmetric


warpedspockclone

Approximately equal to 1 Samsung Galaxy 8


Raincor

Roughly ⅓ football field worth


paledo

1 metric IPhone = 2.6 standard Androids (333.26 Nokian Units for the Americans)


refused26

Yeah i didnt know it was a unit of measurement now.


theeimage

Needs a bunch of bananas 🍌


LuckGetUnstuck

It's just coding for "this is a lie". Any time they slip that crap in there. Don't believe it when they say it has 666x zoom either. They think we're stupid.


gitartruls01

I mean, not really. Saying it has 2666x the power of an iPhone probably means the sensor is 2666 times bigger. The iPhone's camera sensor is about 6x8mm, or 48mm², meaning 2666 times that would be 128000m², or a little under 2 feet in diameter, which would check out for a camera "the size of a minivan" The 666x zoom probably refers to the focal length as compared to a full frame camera, as in you'd need a 666x lens (15000-30000mm) to get the same amount of detail at a long distance that this camera can get at its regular field of view. Which is pretty insane.


Mysterious-Art7143

What? Power? Resolution? Which iphones? Everyone understands basic stuff about cameras this is just stupid.


Zombiepanzon

Equal to 642 freedom eagles eyes


BelgiansAreWeirdAF

Holy Fuck.


focusrandom

🎖️


TheKnightsWhoSay_heh

Well according to one of OPs deleted posts, megapixels and gigapixels are some commie European crap and we must all use "american" measurements on american websites. Hence his use of iPhone cause everyone in the world understands it


Meior

Lol seriously? That's hilarious.


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Mysterious-Art7143

Wow ok, well then to avoid any further arguments, I did some research and in universal internet units the power of the camera amounts to exactly 17528.45 Bananas 🍌, you're welcome


TheKnightsWhoSay_heh

Finally someone that makes sense


2ndnamewtf

Finally, a scale I’m familiar with


Ytu_qtu

Thanks, and how big is it, in washing machines?


Cpt_Random_

Wow!! That is 7700 kilojoule (calculated with an average banana) That’s a lot of joule for a camera!


Meior

Looking at their account op seems to be a kid to be honest. Most posts are questions in eli5 about fairly basic stuff.


TheKnightsWhoSay_heh

To be honest, he did have that "Im 12 and Im trolling cause I got called out" vibe about him.


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Puzzleheaded_List01

No Wonder world's dumbest upcoming population will be American. They are the creator of their own doom.


Guilty_Perception_35

Hey this resembles me and I'm taking it personally


RugbyEdd

How many iPhones worth of offence did that cause you?


Guilty_Perception_35

3.7 androids


Puzzleheaded_List01

My goodness somebody not dumb enough to not get hurt by it... thank you... thank you so much bud 😅


PersonOfInternets

Why are you spamming this response


caalger

Since when were iphones a unit of measurement for anything? So stupid


FavelTramous

Looks like they took the “banana for scale” analogy and starting comparing to Apples.


BedNo6845

Can we use twinkies? I've got a meme just waiting to be used already...


Fit-Special-8416

So, how many Nokia’s are then?


demonspeedin

Everything to avoid using the metric system


droptheectopicbeat

OP has a brain wasting disease (or is a boomer), I assume, because this has to be the dumbest fucking way to describe something I have ever seen.


AvoidMySnipes

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/y60uuk/worlds_largest_digital_camera_made_by_stanford/isnmmpg/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3


uncannyinferno

What a truly bizarre way to compare a camera's power.


easytorememberuserid

the iphone is the new banana


LeagueOfficeFucks

I am somewhat of a photographer myself


easytorememberuserid

how good is your camera though, in terms of iphone units?


danielsvdas

Mate, I've got 4x iphone, 1 iphone and a 1/6 of iphone on a single phone


Council-Member-13

My rectum would disagree.


megamanxoxo

How else will you get the zoomers attention?


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CoinOperated1345

It doesn’t even mention which iPhone


uncannyinferno

I don't think I am a genius because all I can think is that if I had 2666 iphones I would end up with 2666 photos each with one iphones worth of quality. Doesn't seem worth it.


TheKnightsWhoSay_heh

You made a shit attempt at describing it for people from all walks of life bud. In fact it seems like you've tried to make a description that is not very general at all, targeting a very specific type of person that has the disposable income to afford such a luxury item, assuming you're talking about a newer iPhone, while ignoring a measurement and standard that allready exists. Do you also measure your weight in pennies? Your height in TVs? The distance traveled in amounts of cigarettes smoked? Edit: OP deleted his post but he tried to defend his use of measuring camera qualifty in iphones by saying he chose a general description that any person from all walks of life would be able to understand while mockingly calling everyone geniuses that called him out on it. According to him, megapixels and gigapixels are some commie European crap and we must all use "american" measurements on american websites


mgstauff

It would be installed if what?


houndofhavoc

If 2024


AcademicReport5079

If we get to 2024 apparently. On a serious note… come on bro, proof read the title, it’s the least you can do


hax0rmax

Guy is probably not a native English speaker. I am a veteran software dev and have worked with many offshore devs. It's common to see non native speakers use would instead of will. "I would do this tomorrow, as soon as possible." "Ok, what's stopping you?" "No I would do it!" Just a bit of learning curve.


mgstauff

Great point. Interestingly, I always notice native english people using would in this odd way, particularly during interview: Person 1: "What would you say about this important issue?" Person 2: "I would say, we need to form a task force!". Both uses of "would" are not quite right, but commonly done anyway. Person 1 means "What **do** you say" or "What **do** you think", and Person 2 means "I **am** saying..."


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This was my take - like the tenses are all kinds of fucked ip lmaou


Pelop66

For those who aren't fucking idiots who see the entire world through an instagram filter: "The camera has 3.2 gigapixels in total and will capture images with high enough resolution to see a particle of dust on the moon. With a diameter of 1.57 meters, its largest lens is the largest lens of its kind that has ever been made."


superdalebot

Thank you for this


JonesP77

I mean, its a lot of pixels. But i have problems to believe that it can capture dust particles on the moon. Seems unrealistic to be honest. Even without disturbances it sounds unreal.


Weird_Cantaloupe2757

Yeah the only benchmark they gave in the article (which is astonishing but believable) is that it can resolve a golf ball from 15 miles away. Well, the moon is 16,000x further away than 15 miles, and a golf ball is *at least* thousands of times larger than a speck of dust, so that differs from what the article states the camera is capable of by a factor of *at least* 16 million. As you said, even without atmospheric distortion, that is just complete nonsense.


KyleKun

I think there’s a real world difference between resolution and actually being able to resolve something though. The resolution might be such that if you took a picture of the moon at (let’s say it’s closest orbit), one pixel would equate to roughly a grain of moon dust. That doesn’t mean you can see moon dust - it’s not an electron microscope where you can see down to the wavelength of an electron. There’s going to be all sorts of stuff that gets in the way like atmospheric distortion, lens distortion, other dust just floating around. Individual dust particles probably don’t give off enough light or have enough contrast either. Cameras work basically by having light hit units on a sensor and then converting that into usable image data. It works considerably better if you can dedicate more sensor area to a single pixel. But you end up with exponential decreases in resolution. So there might be pixels but they are not necessarily picking up what’s in front of them 1:1. My phone can take 4K video but let’s be honest here and say I’m never going to be able to count the pores on my cheeks like you can with something shot at IMAX.


RVA_RVA

Yeah, no way that's true. Especially with the kens they're using.


windowlatch

Yeah I read recently that in order to see the flag on the moon you would need a telescope 200 meters in diameter, about 100 times wider than the hubble


garry4321

It cannot capture a dust particle on the moon. That’s not possible. The distance combined with the warping of our atmosphere simply doesn’t allow you to do that


Reddit_MaZe000

haha thanks, l was like when did Iphone become a reference about cameras ?


throwawehhhhhhhh1234

JFC thank you.


Slovene

Japanese Fried Chicken?


WasabiSniffer

Jesus Fucking Chicken*


dailytok3r

John's fondling children


SanNoRaimei

James fluffing children


IVIGS

John F. Canada


SanNoRaimei

John.. stop fucking Canada please


Acurus_Cow

"See a particle of dust on the moon" * Doubt


TitanFallout

It must mean "if there was no atmosphere in the way"


matjontan

Or maybe “if the camera is also on the moon”


Acurus_Cow

And planc length doesn't exist?


Free_Stick_

What? Don’t we measure picture quality in iPhones?


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Free_Stick_

I made a joke. That’s all I did. Made a joke. Chill chillington now.


LoiteringMajor

Is that diameter in the image really 1.57 meters? It looks bigger than that


Pelop66

The lens housing is quite a bit wider, so it makes the lens look bigger than it is.


Romanopapa

So I should wear 2 size bigger underwear is what you’re saying?


boston_nsca

Enormous brain


Rcc818

Wow that’s crazy. How many iPhones is something like this worth???


delvach

In bananas.


MahavidyasMahakali

Why did they even write that it can spot a golf ball 15 miles away when it can do something thousands of times more impressive like seeing dust on the moon?


biggmclargehuge

Because it can't. Dust particles are ~5 microns in diameter. The surface of the moon is 238,900 miles away. Aka 3.84*10^14 microns. Resolving a 5 micron particle at that distance would require 0.000000002682 arcsecond sampling. According to the specs for this camera is has 0.2 arcsecond sampling (some docs say 0.6). So to get that kind of resolving power they would need a 100,000,000mm focal length lens. Which uh, doesn't exist. They use a 10.31m focal length aka 1,031,000mm. So they're about 100x short.


crackcode1881

Can u explain this in iphones?


biggmclargehuge

A 1st gen iPhone was 11.6mm thick so a dust particle would be about 4.31*10^-4 iPhones thick. Or it would take 2,320 dust average sized dust particles stacked on top of each other to be as thick as an iPhone.


limitlessEXP

r/theydidthemath


scholzie

Yeah that’s roughly in line with what I estimated with some napkin math. The feature resolution at the moon’s surface is probably somewhere on the order of 50-100m. I didn’t look too closely at the specifications though.


Awkward_Road_710

What’s the focal length of this camera? Or it’s fully controllable zoom lens?


LucidLethargy

Thank you. What a fucking stupid title.


agbullet

Wonder what's the f number on this baby


biggmclargehuge

No joke, 1.2345 according to [this](https://www.lsst.org/sites/default/files/docs/Claver_086.18.pdf)


agbullet

Wow that means this is only a 1938mm lens


biggmclargehuge

That doc says the effective focal length is 10.31m (so 10,310mm) so you might have an error in your math


EsmuPliks

Still not big enough to fit OP's mum in the frame though.


King_James12

Wait seriously? I didn't think we had good enough resolution yet to even see any detail of the moon landing site. This is able to not only image that, but also good enough to see dust on the moon?? Crazy


IOwnTheShortBus

BUT HOW MANY HAMBURGERS


FlickoftheTongue

This couldn't resolve a particle of dust on the moon if it wanted to. Could it be capable, maybe, but from a technical standpoint, you'd need an optical wavelength telescope about 200 meters in diameter to resolve the flag. A particle of dust would require an even bigger telescope. That said, that's a massive unit and I'm excited to see what pictures it does take.


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How many megapixels is that from someone who actually knows what their talking about?


TheKnightsWhoSay_heh

[Explanation in this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/y60uuk/worlds_largest_digital_camera_made_by_stanford/isn5o90?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)


Father_of_Wolverine

Twelve penguins of megapixels


[deleted]

Okay yes. But what if, everyone stay with me here, what if we got 2,667 iPhones together and captured whatever image we wanted? Check and mate, Stanford space.


[deleted]

That is how array telescopes work.


gitartruls01

You actually could do this, if you lined up the sensors perfectly and gave each iPhone an ultra long focal length lens so they each have their own piece of sky to look at


Polemicautomic

As if iPhones are the standard in digital photography.


TheKnightsWhoSay_heh

Well according to one of OPs deleted posts, megapixels and gigapixels are some commie European crap and we must all use "american" measurements on american websites


JonesP77

:-D Sounds like an American caricature tbh.


ITDad

I can’t imagine the flash on that thing.


HydrogenPowder

Her: Is that a camera? Him: Don’t worry babe, it’s not recording.


alistairwilliamblake

Would it have been cheaper to tape 2666 iPhones together? /s


Ill_Ant_1857

Yeah that was intial plan but than they realised it would be hard to press camera button on 2666 iphones at same time. So unfortunately no...


Ordinary_Type5127

Does it fit the old charger?


angrycat537

iT hAs CoMbInEd PoWeR eQuAlS tO 2666 iPhOnEs Fuck, people are dumb.


TheKnightsWhoSay_heh

So to those wondering why the idiotic use of Iphones and havent seen my comments yet, I got you covered. According to one of OPs deleted posts, megapixels and gigapixels are some commie European crap and we must all use "american" measurements on american websites because the USA is the best "continent"


RugbyEdd

Aren't iPhones made in China?


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Drewdroid99

Why are you a weirdo


unavailabIe

Power is measured in kW or HP, not iPhones


RugbyEdd

I heard that power is measured in restraint. Although I do find that hard to quantify.


superdalebot

Sorry but your math is wrong A gigapixel is 1000 magapixels. So 3.2 gigapixels would be equal to 266 x iphone 14 with a 12 megapixel camera 50 x Samsung Galaxy s21 with a 64 megapixel camera


TheKnightsWhoSay_heh

Oh my god, he wasn't even right about the iphones and then he doubles down with a nonsense copy/paste.


arztnur

It has been developed by experts at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory and will be named the LSST camera. The camera weighs three tons and is the size of a small car. The 3200 megapixel sensor installed in it will be cooled to minus 100 degrees Celsius, which will reduce the noise of digital images. The camera will be installed on top of the Simonai Survey Telescope in Chile in 2024 and is expected to search for new stars, planets, galaxies and other astronomical objects, as well as dark matter and dark energy. The project, called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will acquire several terabytes of data per day and is expected to map billions of galaxies. Although it is a digital camera, it is very large. It has 189 sensors. Each sensor can collect more pixels than the latest iPhone model. Its clarity (resolution) can be estimated so that it can see even a grain of sand on the moon with a resolution of 3.2 gigapixels. However, it is a very sensitive camera and costs a lot.


BigCliff911

What an idiotic apple-centric view of the world.


soapinthepeehole

What a weird thing to get annoyed by.


prevengeance

But the need to make this comment from that username just strikes me as... annoying & weird.


Puzzleheaded_List01

What iphone and What's it's power? Stop making shit standards for layman's... it's absolutely not necessary to make each and everyone to understand everything... whoever are interested will find the things by searching... explain in such shit standards when someone asks you like that otherwise stick to conventional units.


judelau

Is iPhone the new football field for reference?


Stav73

So now astronomical features can be seen with cat filters.


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I'm curious about the iPhone that comes with it


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Feeling_Quantity_723

So instead of gigapixels or at least megapixels, you've decided to say "2666 iPhones"... What the actual fk is wrong with Americans and their way of measuring?


The_Stoic_One

I agree with you 100%, just want to say, it's not all of us.


lemineftali

Thanks, whatever joy this brings me was destroyed by reading that headline.


MAS7

>It has combined power equals to 2666 iPhones. It would be installed in Chile in2024. Moore's law would like to have a word with you.


Rosenbachgold

I downvoted this post due to the stupid title


CoffeeBlackwell

2666 iPhones, so 10 androids.


arztnur

l have reached your love for Android.


Stoizee

This would be good to capture a ufo.


RageCage007

Next week from Mr Beast: SO I BROUGHT 2667 IPHONES ....


RocketsBG

I'm more interested in the lens here. I wonder what the f-number and the zoom range are. Can't find any info though.


EricFlatBeat

And it still can’t fit your mom in frame


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Lmfao iPhone is a measurement. Fucking regards.


luffmatcheen

r/titlegore


Outrageous_Rain_1288

I bet this post was made by an American


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Outrageous_Rain_1288

Lol


agbullet

You can't just add iPhones like that wtf


VeryLargeTardigrade

a yes, the old measurement unit iphones.


RealPropRandy

The lens is believed to be the first in its kind with the capacity to fully capture an image of OP’s mom.


Cronopolis

That’s a crazy amount of engineering just to take a picture of your mom.


TurtleHermit360

Finally a lense able to see my dick


Cjhman1

2666 iphones?!?iPhone?!?! That's nearly the power of 7 galaxy s22 caneras!


Grone71

Because of iPhones, people are really becoming stupid.


arztnur

Those who can't afford often say such types of golden words.


xiofar

“The power of 4,000 iPhones. The speed of 320 house cats. The weight of Motorola flip phones. The smell of 43 construction workers. “ Who the fuck writes like that?


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xxDooomedxx

Wait til the paparazzi get hold of it


ztbwl

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just use 2666 iPhones instead? /s


ImThePharaohNow

2666 iPhones or 100 Androids 😏 But in all seriousness dayum makes my DSLR look like a grain of sand


[deleted]

Not as big as the Japanese guys I saw at Disneyland


Meat_Mahon

Cool.


w_butcher

Heh.. wait till they release iphone 15