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[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Capturing the Fastest Events in the Universe

(Jun 9, 2005) A new high-speed camera has been mounted to the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile. This ultra fast camera is called ULTRACAM, and it's capable of recording some of the most rapid astronomical events. It's capable of taking 500 pictures a second, so it will be used to watch any object that can change quite rapidly, like black holes, gamma ray bursts, white dwarfs or cataclysmic variables.

Full story here at Universe Today: www.universetoday.com/am/publish/capturing_fastest_events.html?962005

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Excellent on installing this new camera!

[Maddad]

500 pics a second? Impressive. Wonder what the resolution of each would be.

[stargazer]

I would love to see what this can do,. It would be interesting to see how clear the pics are.


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[Maddad]

500 Frames a second. Now focus that on the neighbor's bedroom window for some super-slowmo!