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
- Fisheye version of this image (with black)
ESO/Y. Beletsky
About the Image
Id: | uhd_vlt_circular_cc |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 24 June 2014, 16:30 |
Size: | 10389 x 10389 px |
About the Object
Name: | Paranal, Very Large Telescope |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory |
Category: | Paranal |