You are not wholly wrong! There is both a supporting structure for the mirror, AND a glass lens in front of the sensor to further flatten the incoming light. The interesting thing about the spikes in our images is that…
The filters used for this range from near infrared to near uv. We used 4 different filters in all (for this image, the telescope has more). In general yes to fully appreciate all the color information as a human we need…
Image creator here. Now imagine, when the survey is done, we will be able to see even fainter objects and image an area of the sky 1000x times this size.
I agree their results are also great! We do go a bit deeper, but he big difference it the speed we are able to build these images. We are able to image a larger area of the sky in each exposure, and are able to collect…
I'm the Rubin team member responsible for mapping the data into RGB images. I have been a long time reader of hacker news, but finally made an account to comment on this. I wanted to thank everyone here for their…
You are not wholly wrong! There is both a supporting structure for the mirror, AND a glass lens in front of the sensor to further flatten the incoming light. The interesting thing about the spikes in our images is that…
The filters used for this range from near infrared to near uv. We used 4 different filters in all (for this image, the telescope has more). In general yes to fully appreciate all the color information as a human we need…
Image creator here. Now imagine, when the survey is done, we will be able to see even fainter objects and image an area of the sky 1000x times this size.
I agree their results are also great! We do go a bit deeper, but he big difference it the speed we are able to build these images. We are able to image a larger area of the sky in each exposure, and are able to collect…
I'm the Rubin team member responsible for mapping the data into RGB images. I have been a long time reader of hacker news, but finally made an account to comment on this. I wanted to thank everyone here for their…