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Save the date - Rubin First Look 23 June 2025

Rubin First Look date announced

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The first spectacular images from Rubin will be revealed on 23 June 2025.

 BBC Tech Now takes a tour of the data facilities at Edinburgh

UK computing power in the spotlight

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BBC Tech Now lifts the lid on the UK supercomputing network that will process and manage Rubin data.

 The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory team installing the LSST Camera on the Simonyi Survey Telescope in March 2025.

LSST Camera has been installed

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The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has achieved a major milestone with the installation of the LSST Camera on the telescope.

 Some of the attendees of the alerts and broker workshop

Lasair team in force at workshop

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Scientists and software engineers from the UK and Europe met up for an alerts and broker workshop at the University of Oxford.

 A single test engineering image from the very first night of the ComCam campaign, before any detailed tuning or more precise alignment of the optical system, is shown in the context of the coverage that will be provided by the LSSTCam: every one of the 21 squares in the teal wire frame is equivalent to another ComCam, all observing the sky at the same time

Test camera delivers images

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New images from the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory engineering test camera (aka ComCam) have brought us one step closer to seeing the Universe in new ways.

Simonyi Survey Telescope dedicated

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Software architect Charles Simonyi and his family were guests of honour at Cerro Pachón for the dedication of the Simonyi Survey Telescope.

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