Paranal Observatory and the VLT
Aerial view of the VLT at Paranal Observatory. Visible are the four large 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes (UTs), as well as the smaller 1.8-m Auxillary Telescopes used during interferometry, when the UTs combine to act as one larger telescope. The telescope at the far rigtht of the observatory in the image is the 2.6-metre VLT Survey Telescope (VST), whose wide field of view is used to survey large areas of the sky in order to locate objects for larger telescopes, including the VLT, to observe.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
Id: | capture-decran-2018-10-08-a-10-51-34-CC |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 21 January 2019, 10:02 |
Size: | 2519 x 1411 px |
About the Object
Name: | Auxiliary Telescopes, Cerro Paranal, Very Large Telescope, VLT Survey Telescope, VLT Unit Telescopes |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Facility |
Category: | Paranal |