Imaging recource: Half a million dollars of Canon lenses capture unprecedented images of our Universe

    What do you get when you cluster together 48 Canon 400mm f/2.8L IS II lenses? Besides nearly half a million dollars of exotic glass, you also get an extremely powerful telephoto array which can captures images showing "extremely faint galaxy structure." The Dragonfly multi-lens array is "designed for ultra-low surface brightness astronomy at visible wavelengths" and it's an ongoing research project at the University of Toronto's Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics. Dragonfly started in 2003 with a mere three Canon 400mm...
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