Mounted image 108: Dramatic moonset on Cerro Paranal
As the full Moon sets on Paranal Observatory, the Sun is about to rise on the opposite horizon. The Very Large Telescope has finished a long night of observations and telescope operators and night-time astronomers get ready for sleep, while the daytime technicians, engineers and astronomers wake up for a new day of work. Operations never stop at the most productive ground-based astronomical observatory in the world.
Credit:G.Gillet/ESO
About the Mounted Image
Id: | mounted_0108 |
Release date: | 23 March 2011, 15:17 |
Dimensions: | 30 cm (W) x 19.8 cm (H) x 1 cm (D) |
Related archive image: | potw1023a |