Installing the VLT’s new deformable secondary mirror
The new Deformable Secondary Mirror is eased into place on the VLT’s Unit Telescope 4 (Yepun). It is the largest adaptive optics mirror ever built and the heart of the new adaptive optics system that will enable to the telescope to produce even sharper images.
Credit:ESO/E. Vernet
About the Image
| Id: | ann16078c |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 28 October 2016, 14:00 |
| Related announcements: | ann18066, ann16078 |
| Size: | 3984 x 2656 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Very Large Telescope |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Instrument |
| Category: | Paranal |
