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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ESO/H. Heyer

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Identificazione:ut2-xshooter-hh-ext
Tipo:Fotografico
Data di rilascio:Lunedì 04 Settembre 2017 16:02
Grandezza:11748 x 5874 px
Field of View:360° x 180°

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Nome:Panorama, Paranal, Very Large Telescope
Tipo:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope
Categoria:360 Panorama
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