New 'Fly-Eye' Telescope Dramatically Widens Field Of View | Operation Animation

Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - 13:30 in Astronomy & Space

This European instrument will split the view of the night sky into 16 'tiled' images, giving astronomers a 6.7° field of view. That’s 13X the size of the Moon, as seen from Earth.

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