Integration of the LGSF launch telescope
The Laser Guide Star Facility (LGSF) is a powerful laser creating an artificial star used as reference for Adaptive Optics observations. It is shining through a small "launch telescope" mounted on top of Yepun, the 4th Unit Telescope of the VLT. Here, the lauch telescope is being integrated before its installation on the telescope.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
Id: | lgsf-integration |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 3 December 2009, 23:20 |
Size: | 4368 x 2912 px |
About the Object
Name: | Laser Guide Star |
Type: | Unspecified : People : Scientist Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Facility |
Category: | People and Events |
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