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Bill Gates and Simonyi donates millions for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

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2008-01-04 10:57:10 by HASH0x89ec984 in Fareastgizmos.com
...Synoptic Survey Telescope, a nearly $400 million project that will be able to survey the entire sky every three nights - something never done before. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is to be built on 9,000-foot Cerro Pachon in northern Chile. It will take an image every 15 seconds nightly, and its camera - the worlds largest and most...
 
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Bill Gates and Simonyi donate millions for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

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2008-01-05 07:52:42 by HASH0x8a1fc50 in Newlaunches.com
...Synoptic Survey Telescope, a nearly $400 million project that will be able to survey the entire sky every three nights - something never done before. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is to be built on 9,000-foot Cerro Pachon in northern Chile. It will take an image every 15 seconds nightly, and its camera - the worlds largest and most...
 
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Gates and space-ace Simonyi gift $30m for giant telescope

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2008-01-06 04:05:00 by posted by Pantha in
...Synoptic Survey Telescope. On Thursday, the group said that Gates and Simonyi had donated $10m and $20m respectively to help develop the telescope, which Gates says "is truly an Internet telescope, which will put terabytes of data each night into the hands of anyone that wants to explore." The 8.4-meter telescope, which sports three large...
 
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Gates and space-ace Simonyi gift $30m for giant telescope

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2008-01-05 23:05:00 by Christopher Grant in Engadget
...Synoptic Survey Telescope. On Thursday, the group said that Gates and Simonyi had donated $10m and $20m respectively to help develop the telescope, which Gates says "is truly an Internet telescope, which will put terabytes of data each night into the hands of anyone that wants to explore." The 8.4-meter telescope, which sports three large...
 
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New Telescope to Create 150 Petabyte Database of the Universe [Space]

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2008-10-03 16:50:47 by Adam Frucci in Gizmodo
...Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is "a proposed ground-based 6.7 meter effective diameter (8.4 meter primary mirror), 10 square-degree-field telescope that will provide digital imaging of faint astronomical objects across the entire sky, night after night." What's that mean? Well, it means, if it's built, we'll have a telescope attempting to...
 
Tags: data, telescope, data access centers, entire sky, data products, sky, survey, synoptic survey telescope, initial data reduction
 
 
 
 
 
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