Building the ESO 3.6-metre telescope

Experts are inspecting the blank for the ESO 3.6-metre telescope mirror at REOSC workshop, near Paris, in 1967. The ESO 3.6-metre telescope was inaugurated at La Silla Observatory, in Chile, in 1976.

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ESO

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Id:ehpa-4-009-cc
Type:Photographic
Release date:16 March 2012, 15:18
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Name:ESO 3.6-metre telescope
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope
Category:La Silla

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