ESPRESSO milestone

A big step towards adding ESPRESSO, a new high-resolution spectrograph to the VLT, has been achieved. For the first time, starlight from one of the Unit Telescopes (UT) that make up ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has been successfully channelled 60 metres along a tunnel leading to a new focus in the underground laboratory beneath the VLT platform where ESPRESSO will reside.

Here the tunnel is seen during an alignment test with green laser light reflected from a reference surface 60 metres away.

Credit:

ESO/ESPRESSO Consortium

About the Image

Id:ann16073a
Type:Photographic
Release date:17 October 2016, 18:00
Related announcements:ann16073
Size:3928 x 1516 px

About the Object

Name:ESPRESSO
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Instrument
Category:Paranal

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