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ELT adaptive optics

The Cerro Armazones mountain in the Chilean desert, near ESO's Paranal Observatory, will be the site for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which, with its 39-metre diameter mirror, will be the world’s biggest eye on the sky. Here, an artist's rendering shows how the telescope's Adaptive Optics system will look in action.

Credit:

ESO/L. Calçada

About the Image

Id:e-elt-night-lasers2-v2-cc-mz-cc
Type:Artwork
Release date:12 June 2017, 12:00
Related announcements:ann17031
Size:6000 x 3951 px

About the Object

Name:Extremely Large Telescope
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope
Category:ELT
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