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The Rubin Observatory camera is the largest digital camera

Its 3,200 megapixel sensor array is built from 189 detectors The LSST Camera, installed at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, has a focal plane of 3.2 billion pixels spread across 189 charge coupled devices. Its largest lens is 1.57 metres across, and the whole camera weighs about three tonnes. Guinness recognised it as the highest resolution digital camera ever built, and it will photograph the entire southern sky repeatedly. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Its 3,200 megapixel sensor array is built from 189 detectors. The figure is taken from NOIRLab, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.