VLT Active Optics Simulation (artist’s impression)
This image shows, by means of computer simulations, distorted stellar images with the form of the letters "V", "L" and "T", produced by the VLT active optics system by a complex distortion of the primary mirror and shifting the secondary mirror to a suitable position along the optical axis.
Credit:
ESO
About the Image
| Id: | eso9940f |
| Type: | Artwork |
| Release date: | 13 August 1999 |
| Related releases: | eso9940 |
| Size: | 800 x 267 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Active Optics, Very Large Telescope |
| Type: | • Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Facility • X - Paranal |

