In 2014 we will all have access to a 3-gigapixel Internet-Observatory

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Bill gates and Word/Excel dev Charles Simony together gave $30million in gifts toward the project and we will all have access to it in 2014.

It's going to be awesome, no? :D

"LSST is truly an Internet telescope, which will put terabytes of data each night into the hands of anyone that wants to explore it. The 8.4-metre LSST telescope and the 3-gigapixel camera are thus a shared resource for all humanity — the ultimate network peripheral device to explore the universe."

Bill Gates -Microsoft co-founder.
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Daily Galaxy is also a cool site for Space fans :)
 
It wasn't a 1474MP camera, it was a Canon G10 compact digital - the gigapan head stitched multiple images to create that 1474 :)
 
It only works on most compact digitals at the mo so until a model is out that works on my Canon 40D I will hold off :p
 
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It wasn't a 1474MP camera, it was a Canon G10 compact digital - the gigapan head stitched multiple images to create that 1474 :)
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How come you don't have edges where people have moved and therefore it no longer meets up?
 
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How come you don't have edges where people have moved and therefore it no longer meets up?
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Panoramic software solutions are able to remove ghosting/movement and align stitched images that look like they were taken in a single shot instead of 30 for example. The Gigapan hardware is way more advanced than any software solution so will get even more accurate results.
 
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