Space Blogs
- Astronomy Blog
- Astronomy Buff
- Astroprof
- Bad Astronomy Blog
- davep's astronomy
- Engineering Britain Space Blog
- How I Am Becoming An Astronaut
- Lunar Picture of the Day
- NASA Ames Research Center
- NASA Breaking News
- NASA Earth Observatory
- NASA Image of the Day
- NASA Orion Spaceship Blog
- New Scientist Space Blog
- Planetary Society Weblog
- Royal Observatory Greenwich
- SOHO Blog
- Space.com
- Space.com Amazing Images
- Space.com Image of the Day
- The Astronomy Blog
- The Daily Galaxy
- The Guidescope
- Tim's Astronomy Blog
- Universe Today
- Vern's Weblog
Newest Users
Newest Groups
Newest Photos
Newest Videos
Sponsored Link
First Light Optics
firstlightoptics.com Online supplier of astronomy and optical equipment
firstlightoptics.com Online supplier of astronomy and optical equipment
Blog: Royal Observatory Greenwich Posted: Saturday 17th of May 2008 12:45 PM
I bought a new digital camera a few weeks ago, and I was very impressed by its resolution - a whopping10 Mpx! (10 million pixels). But that is tiny compared to the digital camera involved in the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS project...
Their digital camera is a staggering 1,400 Mpx!
I would have to buy another 139 cameras to compete with that!
Pan-STARRS main aim is to repeatedly photograph the sky looking for potentially hazardous asteroids - we only know of 953 PHA's at the moment...
[ Full Story ]