Around Paranal
The four 8.2m Unit Telescopes (UTs) — Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun — can be seen at the bottom of the image in this fisheye photograph of the Paranal Observatory in Chile. Around the outer edges are some of the smaller 1.8m diameter Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs). These smaller telescopes are movable, and can work every night as an interferometer, allowing astronomers to see details up to 25 times finer than with the individual telescopes.
Links
- Equirectangular projected version of this image
- Extended to 360 x 180 degrees (with black) version of this image
ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)
About the Image
| Id: | nik9595p2-cc |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 21 September 2016, 11:08 |
| Size: | 11804 x 11804 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Auxiliary Telescopes, VLT Unit Telescopes |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory |
| Category: | Fulldome Paranal |
