SEST at La Silla
The 15-metre Swedish-ESO Submillimetre 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. It was a precursor of APEX and ALMA. 2400 metres above sea level, La Silla was ESO's first observing site. Currently La Silla hosts ESO's 3.6-m telescope, visible in the background, the New Technology Telescope (NTT), and the 2.2-m Max-Planck-ESO telescope.
Credit:
Iztok Boncina/ESO
About the Image
| Id: | ib-la-silla10 |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 6 April 2010, 16:09 |
| Size: | 3567 x 2466 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Swedish–ESO Submillimetre Telescope |
| Type: | • Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope • La Silla |
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