View of the first MACAO-VLTI facility at Paranal
On April 18, 2003, a team of engineers from ESO celebrated the successful accomplishment of "First Light" for the MACAO-VLTI Adaptive Optics facility on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory (Chile). This is the second Adaptive Optics (AO) system put into operation at this observatory.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
Id: | eso0313a |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 13 May 2003 |
Related releases: | eso0313 |
Size: | 1600 x 1375 px |
About the Object
Name: | Very Large Telescope Interferometer |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Category: | Paranal |