Watching the sky
Fulldome timelapse footage showing observations being carried out by ESO's VLT at the Paranal Observatory. All four unit telescopes are shown, from left to right: Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun. The laser light sent up to the sky by Yepun is part of the VLT's state-of-the-art Adaptive Optics system, which uses the laser as a "guide star" to correct the blurring effects of Earth's atmosphere, and create sharper images. Each unit telescope has a main mirror 8.2 metres in diameter, and can observe independently. When used together, however, they can see the night sky in sixteen times more detail than they can alone.
Crédito:P. Horálek/ESO
Sobre el vídeo
Identificador: | horalek-pao2017-fd3 |
Fecha de publicación: | 22 de Marzo de 2019 a las 12:09 |
Duración: | 08 s |
Frame rate: | 30 fps |
Sobre el objeto
Nombre: | Very Large Telescope |
Tipo: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Categoría: | Fulldome |