Faster access than browser!
100 relations: Application programming interface, Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Astigmatism, Astronomical seeing, Astronomical survey, Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Baryon acoustic oscillations, Bill Gates, Cassegrain reflector, Cerro Pachón, Chandra Deep Field South, Charge-coupled device, Charles Simonyi, Chile, Coma (optics), Coquimbo Region, Corning Inc., Cosmic Evolution Survey, Cosmic ray, Critical path method, Dark energy, Dark Energy Survey, Dark matter, Data mining, Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard, Digitized Sky Survey, Earth, Ecliptic, Etendue, Exelis Inc., Extremely Large Telescope, F-number, First light (astronomy), FITS, FLOPS, Florida International University, Gaia (spacecraft), Galactic plane, Gamma-ray burst, Gemini Observatory, Geodetic datum, Google, Gravitational lens, Hale Telescope, Harris Corporation, Harvard University, HVAC, Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules, Kuiper belt, La Serena, Chile, ..., Linear motor, List of largest optical reflecting telescopes, List of Messier objects, Magellanic Clouds, Milky Way, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Moon, National Academy of Sciences, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, National Science Foundation, Near-Earth object, Nova, Pan-STARRS, Petabyte, Pixel, Point spread function, Quasar, Reflecting telescope, Retainage, Ritchey–Chrétien telescope, Santiago, Serendipity, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope, Spherical aberration, SPIE, Steward Observatory, Subaru Telescope, Sun, Supernova, Telescope, Terabyte, The New York Times, The Register, Three-mirror anastigmat, Ultra low expansion glass, United States Department of Energy, Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system, University of Arizona, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Vignetting, VISTA (telescope), VLT Survey Telescope, Weak gravitational lensing, World Geodetic System, Zooniverse, Zwicky Transient Facility. Expand index (50 more) »
Application programming interface
In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Application programming interface · See more »
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy
The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) is a consortium of universities and other institutions that operates astronomical observatories and telescopes.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy · See more »
Astigmatism
Astigmatism is a type of refractive error in which the eye does not focus light evenly on the retina.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Astigmatism · See more »
Astronomical seeing
Astronomical seeing is the blurring and twinkling of astronomical objects like stars due to turbulent mixing in the Earth's atmosphere, causing variations of the optical refractive index.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Astronomical seeing · See more »
Astronomical survey
An astronomical survey is a general map or image of a region of the sky which lacks a specific observational target.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Astronomical survey · See more »
Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey
The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey is a review of astronomy and astrophysics literature produced approximately every ten years by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey · See more »
Baryon acoustic oscillations
In cosmology, baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) are regular, periodic fluctuations in the density of the visible baryonic matter (normal matter) of the universe.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Baryon acoustic oscillations · See more »
Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, humanitarian, and principal founder of Microsoft Corporation.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Bill Gates · See more »
Cassegrain reflector
The Cassegrain reflector is a combination of a primary concave mirror and a secondary convex mirror, often used in optical telescopes and radio antennas.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Cassegrain reflector · See more »
Cerro Pachón
Cerro Pachón (Spanish for "Pachón hill") is a mountain located close to Chilean city of Vicuña and 10 km southeast of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, at an altitude of 2,715 m over the sea level in the foothills of the Andes.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Cerro Pachón · See more »
Chandra Deep Field South
The Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S) is an image taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory satellite.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Chandra Deep Field South · See more »
Charge-coupled device
A charge-coupled device (CCD) is a device for the movement of electrical charge, usually from within the device to an area where the charge can be manipulated, for example conversion into a digital value.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Charge-coupled device · See more »
Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi (Simonyi Károly,; born September 10, 1948), son of Károly Simonyi, is a Hungarian-born American computer businessman.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Charles Simonyi · See more »
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Chile · See more »
Coma (optics)
In optics (especially telescopes), the coma, or comatic aberration, in an optical system refers to aberration inherent to certain optical designs or due to imperfection in the lens or other components that results in off-axis point sources such as stars appearing distorted, appearing to have a tail (coma) like a comet.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Coma (optics) · See more »
Coquimbo Region
The Coquimbo Region (IV Región de Coquimbo) is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Coquimbo Region · See more »
Corning Inc.
Corning Incorporated is an American multinational technology company that specializes in specialty glass, ceramics, and related materials and technologies including advanced optics, primarily for industrial and scientific applications.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Corning Inc. · See more »
Cosmic Evolution Survey
The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) is a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Treasury Project to survey a two square degree equatorial field with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Cosmic Evolution Survey · See more »
Cosmic ray
Cosmic rays are high-energy radiation, mainly originating outside the Solar System and even from distant galaxies.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Cosmic ray · See more »
Critical path method
The critical path method (CPM), or critical path analysis (CPA), is an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Critical path method · See more »
Dark energy
In physical cosmology and astronomy, dark energy is an unknown form of energy which is hypothesized to permeate all of space, tending to accelerate the expansion of the universe.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Dark energy · See more »
Dark Energy Survey
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a visible and near-infrared survey that aims to probe the dynamics of the expansion of the Universe and the growth of large-scale structure.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Dark Energy Survey · See more »
Dark matter
Dark matter is a theorized form of matter that is thought to account for approximately 80% of the matter in the universe, and about a quarter of its total energy density.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Dark matter · See more »
Data mining
Data mining is the process of discovering patterns in large data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and database systems.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Data mining · See more »
Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard
The Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard (DASCH) is a project to preserve and digitize images recorded on astronomical photographic plates created before astronomy became dominated by digital imaging.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard · See more »
Digitized Sky Survey
The Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) is a digital version of several photographic atlases of the night sky, and an ongoing project to produce more digital versions of photographic astronomical datasets.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Digitized Sky Survey · See more »
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Earth · See more »
Ecliptic
The ecliptic is the circular path on the celestial sphere that the Sun follows over the course of a year; it is the basis of the ecliptic coordinate system.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Ecliptic · See more »
Etendue
Etendue or étendue is a property of light in an optical system, which characterizes how "spread out" the light is in area and angle.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Etendue · See more »
Exelis Inc.
Exelis Inc., was a global aerospace, defense, information and services company created in October 2011 as a result of the spinoff of ITT Corporation's defense business into an independent, publicly traded company.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Exelis Inc. · See more »
Extremely Large Telescope
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is an astronomical observatory and the world's largest optical/near-infrared extremely large telescope now under construction.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Extremely Large Telescope · See more »
F-number
The f-number of an optical system (such as a camera lens) is the ratio of the system's focal length to the diameter of the entrance pupil.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and F-number · See more »
First light (astronomy)
In astronomy, first light is the first use of a telescope (or, in general, a new instrument) to take an astronomical image after it has been constructed.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and First light (astronomy) · See more »
FITS
Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) is an open standard defining a digital file format useful for storage, transmission and processing of data: formatted as N-dimensional arrays (for example a 2D image), or tables.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and FITS · See more »
FLOPS
In computing, floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and FLOPS · See more »
Florida International University
Florida International University (FIU) is a metropolitan public research university in Greater Miami, Florida.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Florida International University · See more »
Gaia (spacecraft)
Gaia is a space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA) designed for astrometry: measuring the positions and distances of stars with unprecedented precision.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Gaia (spacecraft) · See more »
Galactic plane
The galactic plane is the plane on which the majority of a disk-shaped galaxy's mass lies.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Galactic plane · See more »
Gamma-ray burst
In gamma-ray astronomy, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely energetic explosions that have been observed in distant galaxies.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Gamma-ray burst · See more »
Gemini Observatory
The Gemini Observatory is an astronomical observatory consisting of two 8.19-metre (26.9 ft) telescopes, Gemini North and Gemini South, which are located at two separate sites in Hawaii and Chile, respectively.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Gemini Observatory · See more »
Geodetic datum
A geodetic datum or geodetic system is a coordinate system, and a set of reference points, used to locate places on the Earth (or similar objects).
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Geodetic datum · See more »
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Google · See more »
Gravitational lens
A gravitational lens is a distribution of matter (such as a cluster of galaxies) between a distant light source and an observer, that is capable of bending the light from the source as the light travels towards the observer.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Gravitational lens · See more »
Hale Telescope
The Hale telescope is a, f/3.3 reflecting telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California, US, named after astronomer George Ellery Hale.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Hale Telescope · See more »
Harris Corporation
Harris Corporation is an American technology company, defense contractor and information technology services provider that produces wireless equipment, tactical radios, electronic systems, night vision equipment and both terrestrial and spaceborne antennas for use in the government, defense and commercial sectors.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Harris Corporation · See more »
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Harvard University · See more »
HVAC
Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) is the technology of indoor and vehicular environmental comfort.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and HVAC · See more »
Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
The French National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (French: Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules, IN2P3) is the coordinating body for nuclear and particle physics in France.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules · See more »
Kuiper belt
The Kuiper belt, occasionally called the Edgeworth–Kuiper belt, is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Kuiper belt · See more »
La Serena, Chile
La Serena is a city and commune in northern Chile, capital of the Coquimbo Region.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and La Serena, Chile · See more »
Linear motor
A linear motor is an electric motor that has had its stator and rotor "unrolled" so that instead of producing a torque (rotation) it produces a linear force along its length.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Linear motor · See more »
List of largest optical reflecting telescopes
This list of the largest optical reflecting telescopes with objective diameters of or greater is sorted by aperture, which is one limit on the light-gathering power and resolution of a reflecting telescope's optical assembly.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and List of largest optical reflecting telescopes · See more »
List of Messier objects
The Messier objects are a set of 110 astronomical objects catalogued by the French astronomer Charles Messier in his "Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles" ("Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters").
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and List of Messier objects · See more »
Magellanic Clouds
The Magellanic Clouds (or Nubeculae Magellani) are two irregular dwarf galaxies visible in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere; they are members of the Local Group and are orbiting the Milky Way galaxy.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Magellanic Clouds · See more »
Milky Way
The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Milky Way · See more »
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in astronomy and astrophysics.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · See more »
Moon
The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits planet Earth and is Earth's only permanent natural satellite.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Moon · See more »
National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and National Academy of Sciences · See more »
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a state-federal partnership to develop and deploy national-scale cyberinfrastructure that advances research, science and engineering based in the United States of America.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and National Center for Supercomputing Applications · See more »
National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey
The National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (NGS-POSS) was a major astronomical survey, that took almost 2,000 photographic plates of the night sky.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey · See more »
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) is the United States national observatory for ground-based nighttime ultraviolet-optical-infrared (OUVIR) astronomy.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and National Optical Astronomy Observatory · See more »
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and National Science Foundation · See more »
Near-Earth object
A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body whose orbit can bring it into proximity with Earth.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Near-Earth object · See more »
Nova
A nova (plural novae or novas) or classical nova (CN, plural CNe) is a transient astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright, apparently "new" star, that slowly fades over several weeks or many months.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Nova · See more »
Pan-STARRS
The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS 1; obs. code: F51 and Pan-STARRS 2 obs. code: F52) located at Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii, USA, consists of astronomical cameras, telescopes and a computing facility that is surveying the sky for moving or variable objects on a continual basis, and also producing accurate astrometry and photometry of already detected objects.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Pan-STARRS · See more »
Petabyte
The petabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Petabyte · See more »
Pixel
In digital imaging, a pixel, pel, dots, or picture element is a physical point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in an all points addressable display device; so it is the smallest controllable element of a picture represented on the screen.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Pixel · See more »
Point spread function
The point spread function (PSF) describes the response of an imaging system to a point source or point object.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Point spread function · See more »
Quasar
A quasar (also known as a QSO or quasi-stellar object) is an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN).
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Quasar · See more »
Reflecting telescope
A reflecting telescope (also called a reflector) is a telescope that uses a single or a combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Reflecting telescope · See more »
Retainage
Retainage is a portion of the agreed upon contract price deliberately withheld until the work is substantially complete to assure that contractor or subcontractor will satisfy its obligations and complete a construction project.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Retainage · See more »
Ritchey–Chrétien telescope
A Ritchey–Chrétien telescope (RCT or simply RC) is a specialized variant of the Cassegrain telescope that has a hyperbolic primary mirror and a hyperbolic secondary mirror designed to eliminate off-axis optical errors (coma).
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Ritchey–Chrétien telescope · See more »
Santiago
Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Santiago · See more »
Serendipity
Serendipity means an unplanned, fortuitous discovery.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Serendipity · See more »
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratory operated by Stanford University under the programmatic direction of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and located in Menlo Park, California.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory · See more »
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a dedicated 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, United States.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Sloan Digital Sky Survey · See more »
Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope
The Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope is a modern aperture optical and near-infrared telescope located on Cerro Pachón, Chile at elevation.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope · See more »
Spherical aberration
Spherical aberration is an optical effect observed in an optical device (lens, mirror, etc.) that occurs due to the increased refraction of light rays when they strike a lens or a reflection of light rays when they strike a mirror near its edge, in comparison with those that strike close to the centre.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Spherical aberration · See more »
SPIE
SPIE is an international not-for-profit professional society for optics and photonics technology, founded in 1955.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and SPIE · See more »
Steward Observatory
Steward Observatory is the research arm of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona (UA).
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Steward Observatory · See more »
Subaru Telescope
is the flagship telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Subaru Telescope · See more »
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Sun · See more »
Supernova
A supernova (plural: supernovae or supernovas, abbreviations: SN and SNe) is a transient astronomical event that occurs during the last stellar evolutionary stages of a star's life, either a massive star or a white dwarf, whose destruction is marked by one final, titanic explosion.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Supernova · See more »
Telescope
A telescope is an optical instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation (such as visible light).
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Telescope · See more »
Terabyte
The terabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Terabyte · See more »
The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and The New York Times · See more »
The Register
The Register (nicknamed El Reg) is a British technology news and opinion website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice and Ross Alderson.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and The Register · See more »
Three-mirror anastigmat
A three-mirror anastigmat is a telescope built with three curved mirrors, enabling it to minimize all three main optical aberrations - spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Three-mirror anastigmat · See more »
Ultra low expansion glass
Ultra low expansion glass (ULE) is a registered trademark of Corning Incorporated.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Ultra low expansion glass · See more »
United States Department of Energy
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a cabinet-level department of the United States Government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and United States Department of Energy · See more »
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system
The Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) conformal projection uses a 2-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system to give locations on the surface of the Earth.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system · See more »
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona (also referred to as U of A, UA, or Arizona) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and University of Arizona · See more »
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign · See more »
Vignetting
In photography and optics, vignetting (vignette) is a reduction of an image's brightness or saturation toward the periphery compared to the image center.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Vignetting · See more »
VISTA (telescope)
The VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) is a wide-field reflecting telescope with a 4.1 metre mirror, located at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and VISTA (telescope) · See more »
VLT Survey Telescope
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is the latest telescope to be added to ESO’s Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and VLT Survey Telescope · See more »
Weak gravitational lensing
While the presence of any mass bends the path of light passing near it, this effect rarely produces the giant arcs and multiple images associated with strong gravitational lensing.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Weak gravitational lensing · See more »
World Geodetic System
The World Geodetic System (WGS) is a standard for use in cartography, geodesy, and satellite navigation including GPS.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and World Geodetic System · See more »
Zooniverse
Zooniverse is a citizen science web portal owned and operated by the Citizen Science Alliance.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Zooniverse · See more »
Zwicky Transient Facility
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF, obs. code: I41) is a wide-field sky astronomical survey using a new camera attached to the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States.
New!!: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Zwicky Transient Facility · See more »
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Synoptic_Survey_Telescope
