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Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images

https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look/cosmic-treasure-chest
7•phsilva•3h ago

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phsilva•2h ago
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NitpickLawyer•2h ago
So stoked for this observatory to go online! One cool uses it'll excel at is taking "deltas" between images and detect moving stuff. Close asteroids is one obvious goal, but I'm more interested in the next Oumuamua / Borisov like objects that come in from interstellar space. It would be amazing to get early warnings about those, and be able to study them with other powerful telescopes we have now.
jasonthorsness•2h ago
Why are there lens-flare-like artifacts around some of the bright objects?
NitpickLawyer•2h ago
Those are diffraction spikes, caused by how the light interacts with the support structure holding the secondary mirror. Each telescope has different patterns, hubble, jwst, etc. I think they only happen for stars, and not for galaxies (an easy way to know which is which), but I might be wrong on that (there's a possibility for faint stars not to have them IIRC).
perihelions•1h ago
> "Each telescope has different patterns"

This one looks extra-special! The pattern is multiple + shapes, rotated and superimposed on top of each other. And they're different colors! That's this telescope's signature scanning algorithm—I don't know what that is, but, it's evident it takes multiple exposures, in different color filters, with the image plane rotated differently relative to the CCD plane in each exposure. I assume there's some kind of signal processing rationale behind that choice.

perihelions•2h ago
Here's the SDSS view[0] of this featured[1] section from the Virgo Cluster, in comparison, to put the staggering depth of these exposures in their proper context,

[0] https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/?target=12%2026%205...

[1] https://rubinobservatory.org/gallery/collections/first-look-...

dekhn•40m ago
I really like the Rubin because I think a lot of people focus too much on "deep" seeing (IE, looking at individual or several objects with very high magnification only once). The Rubin does much more "wide" seeing and this actually produces a ton of useful data- basically, enough data to collect reliable statistics about things. This helps refine cosmological models in ways that smaller individual observations cannot.

What's amazing to me is just how long it took to get to first photo- I was working on the design of the LSST scope well over 10 years ago, and the project had been underway for some time before that. It's hard to keep attention on projects for that long when a company can IPO and make billions in just a few years.

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