Cerro Armazones at night
Fish eye view of the night at the ESO's Astronomical Site Monitor on Cerro Armazones in the Chilean desert, near ESO's Paranal Observatory, site of the Very Large Telescope (VLT). Cerro Armazones was chosen as the site for the planned European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), which, with its 40-metre-class diameter mirror, will be the world’s biggest eye on the sky.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
| Id: | eso1018b |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 26 April 2010, 16:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1018 |
| Size: | 1936 x 1288 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Cerro Armazones |
| Type: | Solar System : Planet : Feature : Surface : Mountain Solar System : Sky Phenomenon : Night Sky |
| Category: | ELT |
