dave-jones-3
This image shows the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) — located at Cerro Paranal — which surveys the visible-light sky. The VST is a state-of-the-art 2.6-metre telescope equipped with OmegaCAM, a monster 268 megapixel CCD camera with a field of view four times the area of the full Moon. The VST is the result of a joint venture between ESO and the Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory (OAC) of Naples, a research centre of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF).
Credit:Dave Jones/ESO
About the Image
Id: | dave-jones-3 |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 22 July 2013, 17:50 |
Size: | 3193 x 3368 px |
About the Object
Name: | VLT Survey Telescope |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Category: | Survey Telescopes |