The SPHERE instrument during installation on the VLT
These sequences show the SPHERE exoplanet imaging instrument during installation on the VLT. The second section shows an engineer working on the complex optics and electronics of the SPHERE instrument, shortly before it was installed and achieved successful first light in May 2014.
Credit:ESO/UHD Team
About the Video
| Id: | uhd_vlt8_2014 |
| Release date: | 4 June 2014, 12:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1417 |
| Duration: | 34 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument (SPHERE) |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Instrument |
| Category: | Paranal |
