E-ELT is becoming a physical reality
On 8 December 2010, the ESO Council visits a small exhibition of E-ELT prototypes and scale models, set up at ESO Headquarters Warehouse, in Garching, near Munich, Germany. At the centre of the image, a model of one of the nearly thousand hexagonal segments which will compose the primary mirror of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), the world´s biggest eye on the sky. Each segment is about 1.4 metre wide and 5 cm thick. The site for the E- ELT was selected in April 2010 at Cerro Armazones, a 3060 metres high mountain in the II Region of Chile and about 20 kilometres from Cerro Paranal, home of the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT). The construction of the E-ELT could start as early as 2011, following approval by the ESO Council.
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ESO
About the Image
| Id: | e-elt_council-2010 |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 17 December 2010, 10:42 |
| Size: | 4550 x 3034 px |
About the Object
| Name: | ESO HQ Garching, European Extremely Large Telescope |
| Type: | • Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope • Unspecified : People : Other/General • X - People and Events |
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