VST telescope assembly
The 2.4m diameter VLT Survey Telescope (VST) has been integrated in its dome on the Paranal platform in 2007. The VST will be equipped with a giant CCD camera to take very wide-field images in the visible light. It will be used to survey broad regions of the sky and catalog the celestial objects. On this image from end-2007, the engineers are assembling the telescope on Paranal.
Credit:ESO/H.H.Heyer
About the Image
Id: | vst-montage-1 |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 3 December 2009, 23:19 |
Size: | 3698 x 2350 px |
About the Object
Name: | VLT Survey Telescope |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Category: | Survey Telescopes |