A look at VISTA´s powerful eye
The Paranal engineer Gerhard Hüdepohl checks the huge camera attached at the Cassegrain focus of VISTA, directly below the cell of the main mirror. 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 will have widest coverage of any astronomical near-infrared camera. VISTA is the largest telescope in the world dedicated to surveying the sky at near-infrared wavelengths.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
Id: | vista_hz_03 |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 10 May 2010, 17:06 |
Size: | 4256 x 2832 px |
About the Object
Name: | VIRCAM, Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Category: | Survey Telescopes |
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