Test of the VLTI instrument VINCI at ESO Headquarters Optical Lab

This photo shows the various components of the complex VINCI instrument for the VLT Interferometer, during the tests that took place at the Optical Laboratory at the ESO Headquarters in Garching (Germany). It was later be installed in "clean-room" conditions within the Interferometric Laboratory at the Paranal Observatory.

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ESO

About the Image

Id:eso0038a
Type:Photographic
Release date:13 November 2000
Related releases:eso0038
Size:1923 x 1186 px

About the Object

Name:VINCI
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Instrument
Category:Paranal

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