The AMBER instrument
AMBER (a creative acronym for Astrometrical Multi BEam combineR) is one of the VLTI instruments. It combines the light of 3 telescopes, and disperses to analyse its spectrum. The very complex optical table is required to clean up and adjust the beams from the 3 telescopes.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
| Id: | eso0706a |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 23 February 2007 |
| Related releases: | eso0706 |
| Size: | 4950 x 4013 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Very Large Telescope Interferometer |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Instrument |
| Category: | Paranal |
