The LSST’s camera will include a filter-changing mechanism and shutter. This animation shows that mechanism at work, which allows the camera to view different...


Jeff Tice, background, holds the particle counter while Travis Lange inspects the surface of the r-band optical filter for dust particles.

An artist's rendering of the LSST Camera showing its major components including lenses, sensor array, and utility trunk.

The LSST camera integration and testing team is slowly assembling the camera’s focal plane

The LSST Camera's digital sensor, visible through the camera's five-foot front lens.


SLAC’s LSST camera will explore cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

A SLAC team installs the final components of the LSST Camera focal plane that will become the heart and soul of the future camera...
