Imágenes de la semana

10 de Diciembre de 2007: The first three Japanese ALMA antennas of the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) at the ALMA Operation Support Facility, located close to the town of San Pedro de Atacama in the Chilean Atacama Desert, at an altitude of 2900m. At the time of the picture, in November 2007, the antennas were undergoing final tests before being handed over to the ALMA Observatory. The 12-m antennas were built by MELCO for the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, one of the partners in the ALMA partnership.

1 de Diciembre de 2007: On 17 and 18 November 2007, the Regional Minister for Research of the Belgian French-speaking Community, Marie-Dominique Simonet, visited Paranal. This was part of a week-long visit to Brazil and Chile, in which the Minister promoted the 'Competitivity Poles' as well as Research and Education in this part of the world. The Minister was accompanied by a delegation comprising Claude Gonfroy and Jean-Luc Horward, members of her Cabinet, Jean-Pierre Swings, former member of the ESO Council, Claude Jamar from the Centre Spatial de Liėge, and Bill Collins, from the AMOS company which built the four Auxiliary Telescopes. Ten French-speaking Belgian journalists, including two TV crews, also joined the Minister for a day at Paranal. Felix Mirabel, ESO's Representative in Chile, Olivier Hainaut, Head of Science Operations at Paranal, and Ueli Weilenmann, were the hosts of the Minister. The Minister visited the telescopes and facilities on site and showed a clear ...

23 de Noviembre de 2007: Dos veces al año, para un observador situado en la cima de la montaña de Armazones, la puesta de sol pasa exactamente detrás de Paranal, a 20 kilómetros de distancia. Las coordenadas para calcular qué días y a qué horas sucede este evento se extrajeron de las ubicaciones de ambos sitios en Google Earth y teniendo en cuenta efectos atmosféricos. La imagen muestra claramente tres de las cuatro grandes cúpulas de las unidades de telescopio de 8,2 metros (la cuarta está detrás) del VLT (Very Large Telescope) de ESO; a su derecha, la cúpula del VST, y en el extremo derecho, el alto puesto meteorológico con la torre de DIMM. A la izquierda de la imagen también pueden verse las cúpulas parcialmente abiertas de los telescopios auxiliares de 1,8 metros, más pequeños. La imagen fue tomada por Stéphane Guisard (ESO) utilizando un telescopio refractor Takahashi FS128, una cámara Canon20Da y ...