Table 1 Table adapted from Meade et al. [26] shows the increasing resolution in Megapixels of instrument/imaging devices versus the resolution of common displays

Instrument/Imaging Device

HST Advanced Camera for Surveys [26]

\(2 \times 2048 \times 4096\)

16

The QUEST Large Area CCD Camera [27]

\(112\times 600\times 2400\)

116

Skymapper [26]

\(32\times 2048\times 4096\)

268

DECam [26]

\(62\times 2048\times 4096\)

520

Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam [26]

\(104\times 2048\times 4096\)

870

LSST Camera [28]

\(189\times 4096\times 4097\)

3200

Display Device

Standard desktop display

\(1680\times 1050\)

1.7

Full high-definition (FHD) desktop display

\(1920\times 1200\)

2.3

iPad (with retina display)

\(2048\times 1536\)

3.1

Dell UltraSharp desktop display

\(2560\times 1600\)

4.1

Laptop (Macbook Pro)

\(2880\times 1800\)

5.2

4K ultra-high definition (UHD) display

\(3840\times 2160\)

8.3