Working inside Kueyen
A 360-degree panoramic view inside Kueyen, the second of the four 8.2-metre VLT Unit Telescopes. In the picture, engineers are seen doing maintenance work, particularly on the spectrographic instrument X-Shooter. This is the instrument installed at the telescope's Cassegrain focal station, located below the primary mirror cell. The cell is the white structure which supports the 8.2-metre-diameter primary mirror, here seen at the centre of the picture.
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Credit:ESO/H. Heyer
About the Image
| Id: | ut2-xshooter-hh-ext |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 4 September 2017, 16:02 |
| Size: | 11748 x 5874 px |
| Field of View: | 360° x 180° |
About the Object
| Name: | Panorama, Paranal, Very Large Telescope |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
| Category: | 360 Panorama Paranal |
