Pfft
Everyone has been telling me how you need to focus on more than just the pixel count. Why don't they just have one of the ISS astronauts take a few pictures with an iPhone?
The proposed 3.2 billion pixel Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) camera has been okayed by the US Department of Energy to proceed to its next stage of development. Receiving “Critical Decision 1” approval from the DoE means the project will get busy with the serious business of engineering design, scheduling, and …
"skywatcher will survey – and publish – the entire visible sky on a weekly basis"
No it won't. Not unless it can see through thousands of miles of solid and molten rock. As I recall, Chile is in the southern hemisphere, so siting it there means that it won't be taking any pictures of the Ursa Minor / Draco / Ursa Major part of the sky any time soon...
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"skywatcher will survey – and publish – the entire visible sky on a weekly basis"
No it won't. Not unless it can see through thousands of miles of solid and molten rock. As I recall, Chile is in the southern hemisphere, so siting it there means that it won't be taking any pictures of the Ursa Minor / Draco / Ursa Major part of the sky any time soon...
..would they perhaps lie in the part of the sky that is not visible to the camera then ?
6 million Gigabytes? That's just silly...
According to "average calculations", that would roughly be...
0.7111 ejaculations.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/16875-terrabytessec-the-bandwidth-of-ejaculation/
Be safe! Always transfer data wwearing a jacket unless you're sure it's all secure!
(Would use the "Coat" icon, but not allowed to...)