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[–] tunetardis@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Oh that would be cool!

Hopefully, this new algorithm is not overly taxing. The amount of processing they'll have to do to keep up with Rubin must be staggering. It's got what, a 3.2 Gpixel camera mapping the entire night sky every few days. And then all that data has to be processed across the timeline of past observations. I wouldn't be surprised if the computational demands are what kept it from becoming a reality until now.