SEST at La Silla
The 15-metre Swedish-ESO Submillimeter Telescope (SEST) at ESO's La Silla observing site in the southern part of the Atacama desert of Chile. Designed to observe at sub-millimetric wavelengths, SEST was built in 1987 on La Silla and decommissioned in 2003. The ESO 3.6-metre telescope can be seen in the background. 2400 metres above sea level, La Silla was ESO's first observing site. Currently La Silla hosts the ESO 3.6-metre telescope, the New Technology Telescope (NTT) and the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope.
Credit:Iztok Boncina/ESO
About the Image
Id: | ib-la-silla09 |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 6 April 2010, 16:09 |
Size: | 2592 x 3888 px |
About the Object
Name: | Swedish–ESO Submillimetre Telescope |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Category: | La Silla |