Now this is real resolution

If you thought that your  50 MP MF sensor was high res, what do you think of this. A 3200 mega pixels sensor?

Meet the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, commonly known as the LSST, will take ultra-high-resolution images of the universe around us in the relatively at hand because it just got   construction approval from the US Department of Energy. This will make it possible the telescope's completion for its scheduled 2022 launch date. Vow. it takes this long?

GIGAPIXELS

At the  core of the LSST is a 3.2 gigapixel (3200 megapixels) digital camera,  the largest in the world so far. It will be the size of a small car. The focal plane uses 189 individual 16MP CCD sensors, arranged into 3x3 groups called 'rafts'. Each raft is a complete camera itself, but acts as a slave to the unit as a whole. Each pixel measures 10µm - for comparison, if pixels that size were used on a full frame sensor, it would give an 8.6MP chip, or a 0.25MP sensor in a compact camera.