The Schmidt Telescope at La Silla
The 1-metre Schmidt Telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, taken in February 1996. This telescope began its service life in 1971, using photographic plates to take wide-field images of the southern sky. Since 2009, it is controlled and operated remotely from Yale University, to search for new Pluto-sized dwarf planets and supernovae in the southern sky.
Credit:
ESO
About the Image
| Id: | lasilla-schmidt-0078-cc |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 7 November 2011, 17:03 |
| Size: | 1645 x 2500 px |
About the Object
| Type: | • Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope • X - La Silla |
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