A new robotic camera with the ability to capture hundreds of thousands of stars and galaxies in a single shot has taken its first image of the sky, an event astronomers refer to as "first light." The recently installed camera is part of a new automated sky-survey project called the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), in which Stockholm University is a partner. Observations are done at Palomar Observatory, USA.
Read more at the Oskar Klein Centre news page and in the press release from Caltech.
Last updated:
November 20, 2017
Source: Department of Astronomy
