First Light For Dark Energy Camera - The CCDs That Made It Happen

Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 06:40 in Astronomy & Space

Early in the morning of September 12th the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), the most powerful sky survey instrument yet built, mounted on the Victor Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile recorded its first images of a southern sky spangled with galaxies. read more

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