LSST

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LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope)

First light: scheduled for 2013.
Diameter: 8.4m;
Camera: 3200 Megapixel;
Location: Cerro Pachon in northern Chile;
Lifetime: 10 years (each sky location would be observed about 1000 times);

Survey: LSST will cover the entire available sky every three nights in two photometric bands to a depth of V=25 per visit (two 15 second exposures), with exquisitely accurate astrometry and photometry.

bandpasses: ugrizY (see the bandpass functions in the figure:

scientific objective:

	Constraining Dark Energy and Dark Matter
	Taking an Inventory of the Solar System
	Exploring the Transient Optical Sky
	Mapping the Milky Way

Advantages for AGB research:

	Optical counterpart identification in the whole Galaxy scale
	Search for spatially resolved envelopes (say, supply more examples as IRC +10216)
	Color selection of much more (fainter) AGB sample stars
	Optical variability of AGB stars (~ 1000 observations over 10 years)

(Above from Ivezic 2007astro.ph..1507I)

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