Largest camera ever launched into space

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From Astronomy.com.

The telescope can detect even the faintest of these winks, registering changes in brightness of only 20 parts per million. To achieve this resolution, Kepler will use the largest camera ever launched into space, a 95-megapixel array of charged couple devices, known as CCDs.

Here's the whole article:

http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=7947

[Ultra Magnus]

but is it full frame?

j/k

BM

[Speed]

Hey BM,

I'm sure it's not only full frame, it's large format full frame!

:-)

[Don Schaeffer]

ooh neat. That looks pretty spectacular.

[Speed]

ooh neat. That looks pretty spectacular.

It is very neat indeed!

We all know about the awesome images the Hubble has sent back. This camera is bigger than the one on the Hubble!

[Overbeyond]

It is very neat indeed!

We all know about the awesome images the Hubble has sent back. This camera is bigger than the one on the Hubble!

It might even send back images of you in the tub

[Speed]

It might even send back images of you in the tub

Oh I hope not!

Fortunately, it will be pointed in the other direction. But rest assured, there are plenty of lenses pointed at us from space...