Early construction on VLT
The image shows the centre piece of the telescope tube which provides the attachment points to the primary and secondary mirrors and has the shafts for the telescope altitude axis. It is 10.5 metres wide and 10 metres long and weighs about 56 t. The photograph was taken at the Ansaldo Energia premises in Milan (Italy).
Credit:ESO
About the Image
| Id: | eso9525b |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 13 September 1995 |
| Related releases: | eso9525 |
| Size: | 706 x 592 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Very Large Telescope |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
| Category: | Paranal |
