Immersive Paranal world
This ultra HD photograph taken during the ESO Ultra HD Expedition captures ESO's Paranal Observatory in this 360 degree fish-eye (fulldome) view. The swirling Milky Way can be seen at its centre. The four 8.2m Unit Telescopes (UTs) — Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun — can be seen below, along with the four movable 1.8m diameter Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs), making up the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The telescopes can work together, to form a giant ‘interferometer’, the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer, allowing astronomers to see details up to 25 times finer than with the individual telescopes.
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- Equirectangular projected version of this image
- Extended to 360 x 180 degrees (with black) version of this image
- Stereographic fisheye version of this image
ESO/Y. Beletsky
About the Image
| Id: | uhd-vlt-circular-cc-fd |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 4 September 2017, 13:47 |
| Size: | 10907 x 10908 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Paranal, Very Large Telescope |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory |
| Category: | Fulldome Paranal |
