The VLT test camera
The VLT test-camera on the platform of the nasmyth focus. The circular structure to the left is the adaptor-rotator, onto which all instruments for for the telescope are being mounted. During observations it will turn the instrument and thus compensates the field rotation.
Credit:ESO/H.H.Heyer
About the Image
| Id: | testcameradec2004 |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 3 December 2009, 23:21 |
| Size: | 3386 x 2277 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Very Large Telescope, VLT test camera |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
| Category: | Paranal |
