Large Synoptic Survey Telescope receives grant

released September 13, 2005

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) has received the first year of a four-year, $14.2 million award from the National Science Foundation to design and develop a world-class, 8.4-meter telescope scheduled for completion in 2012. Planners are deciding between three places for the location of the telescope: Las Campanas, Chile; Cerro Pachon, Chile; or San Pedro Martir, Baja California, Mexico.

The LSST will image an area of the sky roughly 50 times that of the full moon every 15 seconds, opening a movie-like window on objects that change or move on rapid time scales. NCSA is exploring the cyberinfrastructure needed to meet the needs of the research community. This will include state-of-the-art storage systems and high-performance data processing.

For more information, go to http://www.lsst.org/.

 

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