Watching the Sunset at Cerro Armazones
ESO Photo Ambassador Serge Brunier watches a spectacular sunset from the top of Cerro Armazones and prepares for a clear starry night. The crescent Moon is visible just above the Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM), which measures the atmospheric seeing, a fundamental parameter of the quality of the atmosphere for astronomical observations. Cerro Armazones is a 3060-metre mountain in the central part of Chile’s Atacama Desert, and is the site selected for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). Armazones is some 130 kilometres south of the town of Antofagasta and about 20 kilometres from Cerro Paranal, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope.
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- ESO Photo Ambassadors webpage.
Credit:
ESO/S. Brunier
About the Image
| Id: | brunier-armazones-pano |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 26 February 2011, 19:15 |
| Size: | 4724 x 4724 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Cerro Armazones |
| Type: | • Unspecified : Technology : Observatory • E-ELT |
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