What kind of camera weighs nearly 3 tons?

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What kind of camera has a 25 inch dia focal plane, weighs as much as a car and has 3.2 Billion pixels (189x 16mb ccd sensors)?
Same one that has an 8 meter diameter mirror focused on it.
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really big really sensitive telescope (Open in New Window)

Edits: 05/06/24

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Topic - What kind of camera weighs nearly 3 tons? - tomservo 10:17:27 05/06/24 (5)

I'm not knowledgable on such devices - Craiger56 18:16:32 05/06/24 (2)

RE: I'm not knowledgable on such devices - tomservo 07:02:33 05/07/24 (1)

RE: I'm not knowledgable on such devices - Craiger56 12:19:10 05/07/24 (0)

RE: What kind of camera weighs nearly 3 tons? - geoff 14:17:06 05/06/24 (1)

Lol! Did you use a neck strap? - free.ranger 12:00:04 05/07/24 (0)

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