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[Joe Hadenuf]

The following is a news release from Indiana University. WORLD'S LARGEST ASTRONOMICAL CCD CAMERA INSTALLED July 29, 2003 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The world's largest astronomical camera has been installed on Palomar Observatory's 48-inch Oschin Telescope in California. This telescope has been working to improve our understanding of the universe for nearly 55 years. The new upgrade will help it to push the limits of the unknown for years to come.

Actually the above is not true.

Palomar is getting a giant, 161-megapixel CCD camera for a new generation of survey work. The camera, named QUEST (for the Quasar Equatorial Survey Team)

Despite some reports, QUEST is not the world's biggest astronomical CCD camera. That title is still held by the 340-megapixel MegaPrime camera newly installed on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii.