The Paranal observing platform in Chile
Auxiliary Telescope number two on its way to another station in the VLTI array. The delicate and expensive instrument travels on rails steered by joystick in the hands of the following engineer.
Credit:ESO/H.H.Heyer
About the Image
Id: | esopia00102sites |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 3 December 2009, 23:20 |
Size: | 4368 x 2912 px |
About the Object
Name: | Very Large Telescope |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Category: | Paranal |
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