Building the ESO 3.6-metre telescope

Working on removing the safety ring around the blank for the 3.6-m 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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Type:Photographic
Release date:19 March 2012, 18:02
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Name:ESO 3.6-metre telescope
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope
Category:La Silla

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