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RSS FeedsZwicky Transient Facility sees `first light`
(PHYSorg.com Space & Earth)

 
 

14 november 2017 18:05:47

 
Zwicky Transient Facility sees `first light`
(PHYSorg.com Space & Earth)
 


A new robotic camera with the ability to capture hundreds of thousands of stars and galaxies in a single shot has taken its first image of the sky-an event astronomers refer to as `first light.` The camera is the centerpiece of a new automated sky survey project called the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), based at Caltech`s Palomar Observatory near San Diego, California.


 
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