  (Abridged) The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is currently by far the
most ambitious proposed ground-based optical survey. The main science themes
that drive the LSST system design are Dark Energy and Matter, the Solar System
Inventory, Transient Optical Sky and the Milky Way Mapping. The LSST system,
with its 8.4m telescope and 3,200 Megapixel camera, will be sited at Cerro
Pachon in northern Chile, with the first light scheduled for 2013. In a
continuous observing campaign, 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. Over
the proposed survey lifetime of 10 years, each sky location would be observed
about 1000 times, with the total exposure time of 8 hours distributed over six
broad photometric bandpasses (ugrizY). This campaign will open a movie-like
window on objects that change brightness, or move, on timescales ranging from
10 seconds to 10 years. The survey will have a data rate of about 30 TB/night,
and will collect over 60 PB of data over its lifetime, resulting in an
incredibly rich and extensive public archive that will be a treasure trove for
breakthroughs in many areas of astronomy. I describe how this archive will
impact the AGB star research and speculate how the system could be further
optimized by utilizing narrow-band TiO and CN filters.
