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A look into VISTA's powerful eye
The Paranal engineer Gerhard Hüdepohl checks the huge camera at the Cassegrain focus of VISTA, directly below the cell of the main mirror. The VISTA´s powerful eye is a 3-tonne camera containing 16 special detectors sensitive to infrared light with a combined total of 67 megapixels. It has the widest coverage of any astronomical near-infrared camera. VISTA is the largest telescope in the world dedicated to surveying the sky.
Kredit:ESO
O snímku
| Id: | vista_hz_04 |
| Typ: | Fotografický |
| Datum zveřejnění: | 10. května 2010 17:06 |
| Velikost: | 2832 x 4256 px |
O objektu
| Jméno: | VIRCAM, Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy |
| Typ: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
| Kategorie: | Survey Telescopes |
