Rubin #CommissioningNotes ✍️: The data deluge from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory is coming!
Rubin captured over 500 exposures per night across 3 nights this week, using its automated observation scheduler — 20x more than during the 7-wk period with the engineering camera last year!
💥 The team is also starting tests of the analysis software that will identify up to 10 million changes in the sky every night.
Once online, Rubin’s sophisticated software will identify cosmic changes in near-real-time, generating world-public alerts about every detected change within just a couple of minutes of image capture.
Rubin is nearing readiness to begin to #CaptureTheCosmos with its decade-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time - our grand reveal is coming in mid-2025! #RubinFirstLook
For more details from this week: https://community.lsst.org/t/2025-05-09-on-sky-commissioning-update/10058
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📷: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/DOE/NSF/AURA/H. Stockebrand
Week three of the on-sky commissioning with LSSTCam was largely dedicated to collecting an early dataset for building deep coadds and testing difference image analysis with the LSST Science Pipelines. Over the weekend, more than 500 visits were acquired with the Feature Based Scheduler (FBS) on each of three consecutive nights, yielding a pixel data volume nearly 20 times larger than all of the FBS visits taken with ComCam. Images were acquired in the ugri bands for multiple fields spanning a r...
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