30米望远镜的巨型主镜分割成了492块，完美地排列从而形成30米(98英尺)的集光面。
The Thirty Meter Telescope's massive primary mirror has 492 segments, all perfectly aligned to form a 30-meter (98-foot) light-collecting surface.
结果事实是，当时美国最优秀的,光学部件制造商，为这个望远镜制造主镜。
Perkin-Elmer It turned out that Perkin-Elmer, which was probably the best optical manufacturer in America at that time, had built the primary mirror for this telescope.
现在，每隔30秒，PS1就会拍摄一幅1400万像素的天空的一小块，和一个满月一样大--该图片比哈勃空间望远镜的主镜头获得的图片大3600倍。
Now, every 30 seconds PS1 snaps a 1,400-megapixel shot of a section of sky as large as 36 full moons—a view 3,600 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope’s main camera.
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