Mounted image 22: VLT Unit Telescope 1, Antu, venting before start-up
A wide-angle view inside the telescope enclosure. The telescope is Antu, Unit Telescope 1, with the ISAAC instrument at the Nasmyth A focus. Each night around sunset, technicians open the enclosure and prepare the telescope and its instruments for the night’s observation run.
Credit:
ESO/G.Hüdepohl (atacamaphoto.com)
About the Mounted Image
Buy in shop| Id: | mounted_022 |
| Release date: | 15 March 2011, 17:13 |
| Dimensions: | 50 cm (W) x 37.13 cm (H) |
| Related archive image: | eso-paranal-16 |