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 Illustrations |
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