Unusual trailed-zoom view of the VLT

This unusual picture shows one of the VLT's Unit Telescopes. During the exposure the camera was zoomed so that the stars, and the rest of the image, are smeared radially to create a strange and striking effect.

Credit:

ESO/G.Hüdepohl (atacamaphoto.com)

About the Image

Id:ann14033a
Type:Photographic
Release date:28 April 2014, 14:00
Related announcements:ann14033
Size:7360 x 4912 px

About the Object

Name:Very Large Telescope
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope
Category:Paranal

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