Building the ESO 3.6-metre telescope
Arrival of the mirror blank for the ESO 3.6-metre Telescope from Corning at REOSC, near Paris, France, in 1967. The first inspection was done by Charles Fehrenbach (left) and André Couder (right). The ESO 3.6-metre Telescope was inaugurated at La Silla Observatory, in Chile, in 1976.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
| Id: | ehpa-4-014-cc |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 19 March 2012, 17:47 |
| Size: | 3742 x 2494 px |
About the Object
| Name: | ESO 3.6-metre telescope |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
| Category: | La Silla |
