Site testing at Cerro Armazones

This is a photograph of the Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM), during the site testing at Cerro Armazones. The DIMM measures the atmospheric seeing by taking a rapid series of measurements of the differential positions of two images of the same star on a detector. Cerro Armazones was selected as the baseline site for the planned Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Armazones is a 3046-metre mountain in the central part of Chile’s Atacama Desert, about 130 kilometres south of the town of Antofagasta and about 20 kilometres from Cerro Paranal, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope.

This photograph was taken by ESO Photo Ambassador Serge Brunier.

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ESO/S. Brunier

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Identification:brunier-dimm-monitor
Type:Photographique
Date de publication:26 février 2011 18:58
Taille:3523 x 4151 px

À propos de l'objet

Nom:Cerro Armazones
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory
Catégorie:ELT

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