Wow I didn't know how powerful our stargazing technology truly is check out these facts about the Apache Point observatory in New Mexico 

"To study clustering you want to measure many galaxies; if you want to observe 400 galaxies with a normal telescope, it could take 400 hours. Sloan’s telescope allows for the observation of 400 galaxies at once, so it would take 1 hour. With a normal telescope, the survey would take up to 2000 years. With Sloan, the survey only took 8 years, 3 more than the proposed 5, but still many years shorter than performing the survey with a normal telescope.

The telescope had the potential to observe 640 objects simultaneously; to the nominal 400 galaxies, we observed 100 quasars, 50 stars, and 50 calibration objects. The calibration objects were selected to be objects of known brightness to give us a reference point for measuring fluxes with high precision even when cloudiness, for example, causes a dimming in the sky."

Credit to Don York

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